r""" Using simplejson from the shell to validate and pretty-print:: $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -msimplejson { "json": "obj" } $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -msimplejson Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2) Note that the JSON produced by this module's default settings is a subset of YAML, so it may be used as a serializer for that as well. """ import simplejson # # Pretty printer: # curl http://mochikit.com/examples/ajax_tables/domains.json | python -msimplejson.tool # def main(): import sys if len(sys.argv) == 1: infile = sys.stdin outfile = sys.stdout elif len(sys.argv) == 2: infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') outfile = sys.stdout elif len(sys.argv) == 3: infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') outfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'wb') else: raise SystemExit("%s [infile [outfile]]" % (sys.argv[0],)) try: obj = simplejson.load(infile) except ValueError, e: raise SystemExit(e) simplejson.dump(obj, outfile, sort_keys=True, indent=4) outfile.write('\n') if __name__ == '__main__': main()