JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is often used on the web to exchange data.

JSON can be encoded and decoded with Python. That means you can convert from Python objects to JSON objects and vice-versa.

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Python json dumps

In the example below we convert a Python object to a JSON object.

Start with a class (Student), create the object (pythonObj) and
finally convert it to JSON using the method json.dumps().

import json

class Student:
    def __init__(self, id, name, password):
        self.id = id
        self.name = name
        self.password = password

pythonObj = Student(1,'ashley','123456')

# Convert Python object to JSON object
jsonObj = json.dumps(pythonObj.__dict__)
print(jsonObj)

This outputs:
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{"password": "123456", "id": 1, "name": "ashley"}

Python json loads

If you want to convert JSON data to a Python dictionary, just use loads:

import json

j = json.loads('{"password": "123456", "id": 1, "name": "ashley"}')
print(j["name"])

To convert it to a Python object, define the class and pass the parameters as a map.

import json

class Student:
    def __init__(self, id, name, password):
        self.id = id
        self.name = name
        self.password = password

j = json.loads('{"password": "123456", "id": 1, "name": "ashley"}')
pythonObj = Student(**j)

print(pythonObj.id)
print(pythonObj.name)
print(pythonObj.password)

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