Python JSON Handling Made Easy With Built-in Support And Libraries
Working with JSON in Python: Use built-in `json()` method, libraries like `ujson`, `simplejson` & `jsonpickle`, and frameworks like `Flask` for efficient data parsing and serialization.
Often developers need to deal with data in various different formats and JSON, short for JavaScript Object Notation, is one of the most popular formats used in web development. This is the syntax that the JavaScript language uses to denote objects. As a Python developer, you may notice that this looks eerily similar to a Python dictionary. There are several different solutions to working with JSON in Python, and more often than not this data is loaded into a dictionary. For this post, we are going to use the following modified JSON data from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day API. Navigate to...