Track 8 · Lesson 7 of 11

Working with JSON

Read and write JSON with json.load, json.loads, json.dump and json.dumps, map JSON types to Python, and navigate nested data.

You will be able to

• Convert between JSON text and Python values with json.loads() and json.dumps()
• Read and write JSON files with json.load() and json.dump(), using indent for readable output
• Describe how JSON objects, arrays, strings, numbers, true/false and null map to Python types, and what changes on the way
• Navigate nested JSON with chained indexing and .get() for optional fields