JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) 是一种轻量级的数据交换格式,易于人阅读和编写,同时也易于机器解析和生成。
JSON
的基础结构有两种:键值对 (name/value pairs
) 和数组 (array
)。
JSON
具有以下形式:
object
- 对象,用花括号表示,形式为(数据是无序的):{ pair_1, pair_2, ..., pair_n }
pair
- 键值对,形式为:string : value
array
- 数组,用中括号表示,形式为(数据是有序的):[value_1, value_2, ..., value_n ]
value
- 值,可以是string
字符串number
数字object
对象array
数组true / false / null
特殊值
string
字符串
例子:
{
"name": "echo",
"age": 24,
"coding skills": ["python", "matlab", "java", "c", "c++", "ruby", "scala"],
"ages for school": {
"primary school": 6,
"middle school": 9,
"high school": 15,
"university": 18
},
"hobby": ["sports", "reading"],
"married": false
}
假设我们已经将上面这个 JSON
对象写入了一个字符串:
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import json
from pprint import pprint
info_string = """
{
"name": "echo",
"age": 24,
"coding skills": ["python", "matlab", "java", "c", "c++", "ruby", "scala"],
"ages for school": {
"primary school": 6,
"middle school": 9,
"high school": 15,
"university": 18
},
"hobby": ["sports", "reading"],
"married": false
}
"""
我们可以用 json.loads()
(load string) 方法从字符串中读取 JSON
数据:
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info = json.loads(info_string)
pprint(info)
{u'age': 24,
u'ages for school': {u'high school': 15,
u'middle school': 9,
u'primary school': 6,
u'university': 18},
u'coding skills': [u'python',
u'matlab',
u'java',
u'c',
u'c++',
u'ruby',
u'scala'],
u'hobby': [u'sports', u'reading'],
u'married': False,
u'name': u'echo'}
此时,我们将原来的 JSON
数据变成了一个 Python
对象,在我们的例子中这个对象是个字典(也可能是别的类型,比如列表):
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type(info)
Out[3]:
dict
可以使用 json.dumps()
将一个 Python
对象变成 JSON
对象:
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info_json = json.dumps(info)
print info_json
{"name": "echo", "age": 24, "married": false, "ages for school": {"middle school": 9, "university": 18, "high school": 15, "primary school": 6}, "coding skills": ["python", "matlab", "java", "c", "c++", "ruby", "scala"], "hobby": ["sports", "reading"]}
从中我们可以看到,生成的 JSON
字符串中,数组的元素顺序是不变的(始终是 ["python", "matlab", "java", "c", "c++", "ruby", "scala"]
),而对象的元素顺序是不确定的。
与 pickle
类似,我们可以直接从文件中读取 JSON
数据,也可以将对象保存为 JSON
格式。
json.dump(obj, file)
将对象保存为 JSON 格式的文件json.load(file)
从 JSON 文件中读取数据
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with open("info.json", "w") as f:
json.dump(info, f)
可以查看 info.json
的内容:
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with open("info.json") as f:
print f.read()
{"name": "echo", "age": 24, "married": false, "ages for school": {"middle school": 9, "university": 18, "high school": 15, "primary school": 6}, "coding skills": ["python", "matlab", "java", "c", "c++", "ruby", "scala"], "hobby": ["sports", "reading"]}
从文件中读取数据:
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with open("info.json") as f:
info_from_file = json.load(f)
pprint(info_from_file)
{u'age': 24,
u'ages for school': {u'high school': 15,
u'middle school': 9,
u'primary school': 6,
u'university': 18},
u'coding skills': [u'python',
u'matlab',
u'java',
u'c',
u'c++',
u'ruby',
u'scala'],
u'hobby': [u'sports', u'reading'],
u'married': False,
u'name': u'echo'}
删除生成的文件:
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import os
os.remove("info.json")