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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a widely used, human-readable format for data interchange, utilizing key/value pairs within objects and arrays. It is essential for web services and APIs, and can be easily processed in Python using the built-in json package. The document provides examples of JSON syntax and how to parse JSON strings into Python dictionaries.

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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a widely used, human-readable format for data interchange, utilizing key/value pairs within objects and arrays. It is essential for web services and APIs, and can be easily processed in Python using the built-in json package. The document provides examples of JSON syntax and how to parse JSON strings into Python dictionaries.

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JSON Tutorial

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a human readable and very popular format used by web
services, programming languages (including Python) and APIs to read/write data. In this article we
will learn some basic knowledge of JSON and how to use Python to process JSON.

JSON syntax structure:

 uses curly braces {} to hold objects and square brackets [] to hold arrays.

 JSON data is written as key/value pairs.


 A key/value pair consists of a key (must be a string in double quotation marks "" ), followed
by a colon:, followed by a value. For example: “name”:”John”
 Each key must be unique.
 Values must be of type string, number, object, array, boolean or null
 Multiple key/value within an object are separated by commas ,

 JSON can use arrays. Arrays are used to store multiple values in a single variable. For
example:

“name”:”John”,

“age”:30,

“cars”:[ “Ford”, “BMW”, “Fiat”]

In the above example, “cars” is an array which contains three values “Ford”, “BMW” and “Fiat”. If

we have a JSON string, we can convert (parse) it into Python by using the [Link]() method,
which returns a Python dictionary:

import json

myvar = '{“name”:”John”,“age”:30,“cars”:[ “Ford”, “BMW”, “Fiat”]}'

parse_myvar = [Link](myvar)

print(parse_myvar["cars"][0])

The result:
Ford

Note:

 Python comes with a built-in package called json for encoding and decoding JSON data so we
need to “import json” first
 If you want to write a variable in multiple lines or with special characters (including

NEWLINEs, TABs) then you should use triple quotes """ . For example the “myvar” variable
above can be written as follows:

myvar = """

“name”:”John”,

“age”:30,

“cars”:[ “Ford”, “BMW”, “Fiat”]

"""

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