diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/json/__init__.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/json/__init__.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py index 86a7a3e50a..44f49c4247 100644 --- a/Lib/json/__init__.py +++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Compact encoding:: Pretty printing:: >>> import json - >>> s = json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4) - >>> print('\n'.join([l.rstrip() for l in s.splitlines()])) + >>> print(json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, + ... indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))) { "4": 5, "6": 7 @@ -146,7 +146,9 @@ def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, If ``indent`` is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and object members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level of 0 will only insert newlines. ``None`` is the most compact - representation. + representation. Since the default item separator is ``', '``, the + output might include trailing whitespace when ``indent`` is specified. + You can use ``separators=(',', ': ')`` to avoid this. If ``separators`` is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple then it will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators. @@ -207,7 +209,9 @@ def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, If ``indent`` is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and object members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level of 0 will only insert newlines. ``None`` is the most compact - representation. + representation. Since the default item separator is ``', '``, the + output might include trailing whitespace when ``indent`` is specified. + You can use ``separators=(',', ': ')`` to avoid this. If ``separators`` is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple then it will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators. |