Read JSON File in Python Program

This is a step by step example of how to read a JSON file in a Python program,

Step 1:

Make sure you import JSON module,

import json

Step 2:

Now lets read from an external JSON file,

json_file = open("sample-json-file.txt", "r")

Step 3:

Now we need to convert this json_file object to a String,

json_str = json_file.read()

Step 4:

Now lets convert this json_str to an JSON object,

json_obj = json.loads(json_str)

Step 5:

In this example, we will just iterate the array in the JSON file,

for element in json_obj:
  print(element['name'])
  print(element['age'])
  print(element['city'])
  print("-----------")

Complete Program:

Content of JSON file

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# Code2care Python Programs
# How to read JSON File
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import json

json_file = open("sample-json-file.txt", "r")

json_str = json_file.read()
json_obj = json.loads(json_str)

for element in json_obj:
  print(element['name'])
  print(element['age'])
  print(element['city'])
  print("-----------")

Output:

Mike
29
New York
-----------
John
21
Chicago
-----------
Sam
23
London
-----------
Brian
19
Madrid
-----------
Danny
27
New York
-----------

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