Parse JSON in PHP ＆ Python

Xah Lee, 2012-09-26, 2012-11-13

Here's quick way to pretty-print JSON string using PHP and Python

<?php
// can be some complex, page-long JSON data
$jsonString = <<<'HHHHH'
{"some":"thing"}
HHHHH;
var_dump(json_decode( $jsonString ));
?>

#python 2
import json

# can be complex page-long JSON data
jsonString = '''{"some":"thing"}'''

jsonObject = json.loads(jsonString)

print json.dumps( jsonObject, indent=2)

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