pretty-print json in python (pythonic way)

Question

I know that the pprint python standard library is for pretty-printing python data types. However, I'm always retrieving json data, and I'm wondering if there is any easy and fast way to pretty-print json data?

No pretty-printing:

import requests r = requests.get('http://server.com/api/2/....') r.json() 

With pretty-printing:

>>> import requests >>> from pprint import pprint >>> r = requests.get('http://server.com/api/2/....') >>> pprint(r.json()) 

Answer 1

Python's builtin JSON module can handle that for you:

>>> import json >>> a = {'hello': 'world', 'a': [1, 2, 3, 4], 'foo': 'bar'} >>> print(json.dumps(a, indent=2)) {   "hello": "world",   "a": [     1,     2,     3,     4   ],   "foo": "bar" } 

Answer 2

import requests import json r = requests.get('http://server.com/api/2/....') pretty_json = json.loads(r.text) print (json.dumps(pretty_json, indent=2))