Can json.dumps create multiple lines

Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pylist at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 11:55:14 EST 2016


On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:
> I would prefer when it would generate:
>     '[
>      "An array",
>      "with several strings",
>      "as a demo"
>      ]'
>
> Is this possible, or do I have to code this myself?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html?highlight=indent#json.dump

Python 3.5.2 (v3.5.2:4def2a2901a5, Jun 26 2016, 10:47:25)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"])
'["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"]'
>>> print(_)
["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"]
>>> json.dumps(["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"], indent=0)
'[\n"An array",\n"with several strings",\n"as a demo"\n]'
>>> print(_)
[
"An array",
"with several strings",
"as a demo"
]

I've also seen something about JSON support in SQLite, you may want to
look into that.

-- 
Zach



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