Handling a Txt file content as a String Variable-CodePudding

I have a json file, and I need to read all of that json file content as String data. How can I read all the data and set a variable as a String for all of that content? Json file has blanks, new lines, special characters etc if it's neccesarry.

Thanks for your help!

CodePudding user response：

import json
from ast import literal_eval

with open('<path_to_json_data>/json_data.txt') as f:
    json_data = json.load(f) # dict object
    print(json_data, type(json_data)) 
    
json_data_as_str = str(json_data) # dict-->str object
print(json_data_as_str, type(json_data_as_str)) 

data = literal_eval(json_data_as_str) # str-->dict object again
print(data, type(data))

Hope it helps

CodePudding user response：

Simple as this example

import json

with open("path/to/json/filename.json", "r") as json_file:
    data = json.load(json_file)
    print(data)

dataStr = json.dumps(data)
print(dataStr)

CodePudding user response：

use json.loads

import json

with open(file_name, "r") as fp:
    as_string = json.loads(fp.read())