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Isaiah
Isaiah

Reputation: 113

JSON dump in Python writing newline character and carriage returns in file.

When I open and write a valid json into a file with the command below, it writes newline and carriage return characters into the data.

with open('logs/output.json', 'w') as outfile:
     json.dump(json_data, outfile, indent=2, separators=(',', ': '))

output.json looks something like this:

{\r\n \"config\": {\r\n \"app\": {\r\n \"calendar\": {\r\n \"{tenant-key}calendar.reference }

How can I prevent this?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 38042

Answers (2)

dylanlarrivee
dylanlarrivee

Reputation: 43

I got something similar to work by doing something like this:

newJson = json.dump(json_data, outfile, indent=2, separators=(',', ': '))
with open('logs/output.json', 'w') as json_file:
        json_file.write(newJson)

Upvotes: 2

Rich Tier
Rich Tier

Reputation: 9441

json.dump(json_data, outfile, separators=(',', ':'))

Indent keywords argument needed only if you want indents on your new lines. You're activating "pretty print" by doing that.

Upvotes: 5

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