Beautifying JSON output in terminal - Visual Studio Code - Python

Question

I would like to make the output of JSON string prettier in the terminal of VSC.

I'm currently using python 3.8.5 32 bit in a venv, and the latest version of VSC. I've got the python and python extension pack installed. I tried Prettify JSON but that doesn't seem to do anything.

So far I've tried using:

print(json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(",", ": ")))

However this just produces a large string that is difficult to read Image of the output

I'm a relative beginner with Python and just started with VSC in the last couple of days.

Answer 1

from pprint import pprint

pprint(json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(",", ": ")))