python json boolean to lowercase string

Question

Is there a best-practice for outputting Booleans in Python? I'm generating some JSON (via Django templates), and by default all the Boolean values are output with leading character in uppercase, contrary to the JSON standard (ie, "True" as opposed to "true").

Currently, I format each Boolean string using str.lower(), but is there a better way?

Answer 1

Well, then serialise to JSON using json, not some custom thingy.

import json
print json.dumps({'foo': True}) # => {"foo": true}