Read json file as input and output as pprint? [duplicate]

Question

I'm working with a large json file that is currently encoded as one long line.

This makes it unintelligable for other people to work with, so I want to render it using pprint.

At the moment I'm trying to import the full file and print as pprint but my output looks like this:

<_io.TextIOWrapper name='hash_mention.json' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'>

My question is- what is that showing? How can I get it to output the json data as pprint?

The code I've written looks like this:

import pprint

with open('./hash_mention.json', 'r') as input_data_file:

    pprint.pprint(input_data_file)

pprint.pprint(input_data_file) --> pprint.pprint(input_data_file.read()) — cs95
– cs95, Commented Jul 1, 2017 at 16:24

gureks · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-01 16:31:42Z

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You opened the file in read mode but forgot to read the file contents.

Just change pprint.pprint(input_data_file) with pprint.pprint(input_data_file.read()) and voila!

answered Jul 1, 2017 at 16:31

gureks

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