How can I convert JSON to CSV?

Question

I have a JSON file I want to convert to a CSV file. How can I do this with Python?

I tried:

import json
import c         


        

Answer 1

import json,csv
t=''
t=(type('a'))
json_data = []
data = None
write_header = True
item_keys = []
try:
with open('kk.json') as json_file:
    json_data = json_file.read()

    data = json.loads(json_data)
except Exception as e:
    print( e)

with open('bar.csv', 'at') as csv_file:
    writer = csv.writer(csv_file)#, quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
    for item in data:
        item_values = []
        for key in item:
            if write_header:
                item_keys.append(key)
            value = item.get(key, '')
            if (type(value)==t):
                item_values.append(value.encode('utf-8'))
            else:
                item_values.append(value)
        if write_header:
            writer.writerow(item_keys)
            write_header = False
        writer.writerow(item_values)

Answer 2

Unfortunately I have not enouthg reputation to make a small contribution to the amazing @Alec McGail answer. I was using Python3 and I have needed to convert the map to a list following the @Alexis R comment.

Additionaly I have found the csv writer was adding a extra CR to the file (I have a empty line for each line with data inside the csv file). The solution was very easy following the @Jason R. Coombs answer to this thread: CSV in Python adding an extra carriage return

You need to simply add the lineterminator='\n' parameter to the csv.writer. It will be: csv_w = csv.writer( out_file, lineterminator='\n' )