json2yaml

Command line utilities to convert between JSON and YAML while preserving the order of associative arrays.

Preserving the mapping order is helpful to humans reading the documents, despite not affecting their meaning.

Install

pip install json2yaml

Usage

json2yaml input.json output.yaml

yaml2json input.yaml output.json

$ json2yaml --help
Usage:
    json2yaml (--version|--help)
    json2yaml [<json_file>] [<yaml_file>]

Arguments:
    <json_file>    The input file containing the JSON to convert. If not
                   specified, reads from stdin.
    <yaml_file>    The output file to which to write the converted YAML. If 
                   not specified, writes to stdout.

$ yaml2json --help
Usage:
    yaml2json (--version|--help)
    yaml2json [-i <indent>] [<yaml_file>] [<json_file>]

Arguments:
    -i, --indent=INDENT  Number of spaces to indent [default: 4]
    <yaml_file>          The input file containing the YAML to convert. If not
                         specified, reads from stdin.
    <json_file>          The output file to which to write the converted JSON.
                         If not specified, writes to stdout.

Changelog

• 1.1.1 (March 16, 2015)
  • terminate json output with newline
• 1.1.0 (March 16, 2015)
  • take indent as command line argument (-i | --indent)
  • prevent trailing spaces in json output

Authors

David Bild

• https://www.davidbild.org
• https://github.com/drbild

License

Copyright 2015 David R. Bild

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License from the LICENSE.txt file or at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.