How to prettyprint a JSON file?

Question

I have a JSON file that is a mess that I want to prettyprint-- what's the easiest way to do this in python? I know PrettyPrint takes an "object", which I think can be a file, but I don't know how to pass a file in-- just using the filename doesn't work.

Answer 1

Hi,

pprint takes a python object. To get a python object from a json file, you can read the contents of the file and pass the contents to json.loads(). Then pass the result to pprint.

Goodluck!