serializing JSON files with newlines in Python
- by user248237
I am using json and jsonpickle sometimes to serialize objects to files, using the following function:
def json_serialize(obj, filename, use_jsonpickle=True):
f = open(filename, 'w')
if use_jsonpickle:
import jsonpickle
json_obj = jsonpickle.encode(obj)
f.write(json_obj)
else:
simplejson.dump(obj, f)
f.close()
The problem is that if I serialize a dictionary for example, using "json_serialize(mydict, myfilename)" then the entire serialization gets put on one line. This means that I can't grep the file for entries to be inspected by hand, like I would a CSV file. Is there a way to make it so each element of an object (e.g. each entry in a dict, or each element in a list) is placed on a separate line in the JSON output file?
thanks.
