pretty-print json in python (pythonic way)

Question

I know that the pprint python standard library is for pretty-printing python data types. However, I\'m always retrieving json data, and I\'m wondering if there is a

Answer 1

Python's builtin JSON module can handle that for you:

>>> import json
>>> a = {'hello': 'world', 'a': [1, 2, 3, 4], 'foo': 'bar'}
>>> print(json.dumps(a, indent=2))
{
  "hello": "world",
  "a": [
    1,
    2,
    3,
    4
  ],
  "foo": "bar"
}

Answer 2

import requests
import json
r = requests.get('http://server.com/api/2/....')
pretty_json = json.loads(r.text)
print (json.dumps(pretty_json, indent=2))

Answer 3

Use for show unicode values and key.

print (json.dumps(pretty_json, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

Answer 4

I used following code to directly get a json output from my requests-get result and pretty printed this json object with help of pythons json libary function .dumps() by using indent and sorting the object keys:

import requests
import json

response = requests.get('http://example.org')
print (json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4, sort_keys=True))