printing json in readable format inside python

Question

I am trying to prints json in readable form. I already checked previous threads and tried out.

using

JSON.stringify(response)

gives error:

NameError: name 'JSON' is not defined

Using

response = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(url).read())
parsed = json.loads(response)
print json.dumps(parsed, indent=4, sort_keys=True)

gives error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "p6.py", line 15, in <module>
    parsed = json.loads(response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 328, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 365, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
TypeError: expected string or buffer

JSON.stringify is not even Python. It's javascript.

CppLearner
– CppLearner

2014-08-14 05:53:10 +00:00
Commented Aug 14, 2014 at 5:53 — CppLearner
– CppLearner, Commented Aug 14, 2014 at 5:53

NPE · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-14 05:52:34Z

3

You get

NameError: name 'JSON' is not defined

because the first snippet is in JavaScript, not in Python.

As to the second snippet, you are calling json.loads() twice:

response = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(url).read())  # calling once
parsed = json.loads(response)                      # calling twice

Just call it once (and ensure that what you get from the HTTP server is actually JSON).

answered Aug 14, 2014 at 5:52

NPE

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