You can parse JSON files using the JSON module in Python. This module parses the json and puts it in a dict. You can then get the values from this like a normal dict. For example, if you have a json with the following content −
{ "id": "file", "value": "File", "popup": { "menuitem": [ {"value": "New", "onclick": "CreateNewDoc()"}, {"value": "Open", "onclick": "OpenDoc()"}, {"value": "Close", "onclick": "CloseDoc()"} ] } }
Example
You can load it in your python program and loop over its keys in the following way −
import json f = open('data.json') data = json.load(f) f.close()
# Now you can use data as a normal dict −
for (k, v) in data.items(): print("Key: " + k) print("Value: " + str(v))
Output
This will give the output −
Key: id Value: file Key: value Value: File Key: popup Value: {'menuitem': [{'value': 'New', 'onclick': 'CreateNewDoc()'}, {'value': 'Open', 'onclick': 'OpenDoc()'}, {'value': 'Close', 'onclick': 'CloseDoc()'}]}