TypeError when converting dictionary to JSON array

Question

How do I take a python dictionary where the keys and values are Strings and convert it into a JSON String.

This is what I have right now:

import json  def create_simple_meeting(subject, startDate, endDate, location, body):     info = dict()     if(subject != ""):         info["subject"] = subject     if(startDate != ""):         info["startDate"] = startDate     if(endDate != ""):         info["endDate"] = endDate     if(body != ""):         info["body"] = body     if(location != ""):         info["location"] = location     print(json.dumps(dict))  create_simple_meeting("This is the subject of our meeting.","2014-05-29 11:00:00","2014-05-29 12:00:00", "Boca Raton", "We should definitely meet up, man") 

And it gives me this error

  File "/Users/bens/Documents/workspace/Copy of ws1 for py java playing/opias/robot/libs/playing.py", line 15, in create_simple_meeting     print(json.dumps(dict))   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 243, in dumps     return _default_encoder.encode(obj)   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 207, in encode     chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 270, in iterencode     return _iterencode(o, 0)   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 184, in default     raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable") TypeError: <type 'dict'> is not JSON serializable 

Answer 1

You are trying to serialise the type object, dict, instead of info. Dump the right variable:

print(json.dumps(info))