Make JSON Object in python

Question

I want make JSON Object in python like this :

{
"to":["admin"],
"content":{
           "message":"everything",
           "command":0,
           "date":["tag1",...,"tagn"]
           },
"time":"YYYYMMDDhhmmss"
}

This is my code in python :

import json

cont = [{"message":"everything","command":0,"data":["tag1","tag2"]}]
json_content = json.dumps(cont,sort_keys=False,indent=2)
print json_content

data = [{"to":("admin"),"content":json_content, "time":"YYYYMMDDhhmmss"}]
json_obj = json.dumps(data,sort_keys=False, indent =2)

print json_obj

But I get the result like this :

[
  {
    "content": "[\n  {\n    \"data\": [\n      \"tag1\", \n      \"tag2\"\n    ], \n    \"message\": \"everything\", \n    \"command\": 0\n  }\n]", 
    "to": "admin", 
    "time": "YYYYMMDDhhmmss"
  }
]

Could someone please help me? Thankyou

Possible duplicate of How to dynamically build a JSON object with Python? — Abhishek
– Abhishek, Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 4:13

tmthydvnprt · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-28 04:17:20Z

2

Nested `json` content

json_content is a json string representation returned by the first call to json.dumps(), this is why you get a string version of the content in the second call to json.dumps(). You need to call json.dumps() once on the whole python object after you place the original content, cont, directly into data.

import json

cont = [{
    "message": "everything",
    "command": 0,
    "data"   : ["tag1", "tag2"]
}]

data = [{
    "to"      : ("admin"), 
    "content" : cont, 
    "time"    : "YYYYMMDDhhmmss"
}]
json_obj = json.dumps(data,sort_keys=False, indent =2)

print json_obj

[
  {
    "content": [
      {
        "data": [
          "tag1", 
          "tag2"
        ], 
        "message": "everything", 
        "command": 0
      }
    ], 
    "to": "admin", 
    "time": "YYYYMMDDhhmmss"
  }
]

edited Jul 28, 2016 at 4:17

answered Jul 28, 2016 at 4:11

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