Convert Python dictionary to JSON array

Question

Currently I have this dictionary  printed using pprint       AlarmExTempHum     x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00      AlarmIn   0     AlarmOut     x00 x00      AlarmRain   0     AlarmSoilLeaf     x00 x00 x00 x00      BarTrend   60     BatteryStatus   0     BatteryVolts   4 751953125     CRC   55003   EOL     n r    ETDay   0   ETMonth   0   ETYear   0   ExtraHum1   None   ExtraHum2   None   ExtraHum3   None   ExtraHum4   None   ExtraHum5   None   ExtraHum6   None   ExtraHum7   None   ExtraTemp1   None   ExtraTemp2   None   ExtraTemp3   None   ExtraTemp4   None   ExtraTemp5   None   ExtraTemp6   None   ExtraTemp7   None   ForecastIcon   2   ForecastRuleNo   122   HumIn   31   HumOut   94   LOO    LOO    LeafTemps     xff xff xff xff    LeafWetness     xff xff xff x00    NextRec   37   PacketType   0   Pressure   995 9363359295631   RainDay   0 0   RainMonth   0 0   RainRate   0 0   RainStorm   0 0   RainYear   2 8   SoilMoist     xff xff xff xff    SoilTemps     xff xff xff xff    SolarRad   None   StormStartDate    2127-15-31    SunRise   849   SunSet   1611   TempIn   21 38888888888889   TempOut   0 8888888888888897   UV   None   WindDir   219   WindSpeed   3 6   WindSpeed10Min   3 6    When I do this     import json d    my dictionary above  jsonarray   json dumps d    I get this error   utf8  codec can t decode byte 0xff in position 0  invalid start byte

User · Accepted Answer

If you are fine with non-printable symbols in your json, then add ensure_ascii=False to dumps call.

>>> json.dumps(your_data, ensure_ascii=False)

If ensure_ascii is false, then the return value will be a unicode instance subject to normal Python str to unicode coercion rules instead of being escaped to an ASCII str.

User · Answer

If you use Python 2  don t forget to add the UTF-8 file encoding comment on the first line of your script     - - coding  UTF-8 - -   This will fix some Unicode problems and make your life easier

User · Answer

ensure ascii False really only defers the issue to the decoding stage    gt  gt  gt  dict2     LeafTemps     xff xff xff xff     gt  gt  gt  json1   json dumps dict2  ensure ascii False   gt  gt  gt  print json1    LeafTemps            gt  gt  gt  json loads json1  Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt    File   usr lib python2 7 json   init   py   line 328  in loads     return  default decoder decode s    File   usr lib python2 7 json decoder py   line 365  in decode     obj  end   self raw decode s  idx  w s  0  end      File   usr lib python2 7 json decoder py   line 381  in raw decode     obj  end   self scan once s  idx  UnicodeDecodeError   utf8  codec can t decode byte 0xff in position 0  invalid start byte   Ultimately you can t store raw bytes in a JSON document  so you ll want to use some means of unambiguously encoding a sequence of arbitrary bytes as an ASCII string - such as base64    gt  gt  gt  import json  gt  gt  gt  from base64 import b64encode  b64decode  gt  gt  gt  my dict     LeafTemps     xff xff xff xff      gt  gt  gt  my dict  LeafTemps     b64encode my dict  LeafTemps     gt  gt  gt  json dumps my dict     LeafTemps         w       gt  gt  gt  json loads json dumps my dict    u LeafTemps   u      w      gt  gt  gt  new dict   json loads json dumps my dict    gt  gt  gt  new dict  LeafTemps     b64decode new dict  LeafTemps     gt  gt  gt  print new dict  u LeafTemps     xff xff xff xff

User · Answer

One possible solution that I use is to use python3   It seems to solve many utf issues   Sorry for the late answer  but it may help people in the future   For example      usr bin env python3 import json   your code follows

[python] Convert Python dictionary to JSON array

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