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L5·Intermediate/Advanced

📤JSON & Serialization

Turning objects into text and back.

jsonpickleserialization

§ 1json module

json.dumps(obj) → str, json.loads(s) → obj. json.dump/load for file objects.

§ 2Custom types

Default only supports dict, list, str, int, float, bool, None. Use default= or a custom Encoder for the rest.

Example

1import json​
2data = {"name": "Ada", "skills": ["math", "code"], "active": True}​
3s = json.dumps(data, indent=2)​
4print(s)​
5print(json.loads(s))​

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