Using JSN with Python

Question

I am trying to send JSON request using Python, but I receive an error when I try to create JSON object using the following format:

data="{
"auth": {
  "tenantName": "user1",
  "passwordCredentials": {
  "username": "user1",
  "password": "pass"
  }
 }
}"

The error message is:

File "auth.py", line 5
    data="{
          ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

Answer 1

You can simply create a dict and use json.dumps() to create a JSON string from it.

import json

data = json.dumps({
    'auth': {
        'tenantName': 'user1',
        'passwordCredentials': {
            'username': 'user1',
            'password': 'pass'
        }
    }
})

What you did is invalid since you can't have linebreaks in a "normal" quoted string - you'd have to use triple quotes instead. However, don't do that. Creating JSON using string functions is a bad idea, even if it's just dumpling a hand-crafted JSON string into a string.