How to write human-readable data to to a JSON file

Question

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When I export a file from python to json file it contains charecters like,<\/i>

{"-": "text", "menu": {"-": "node", "id": 2244676, "prev": "[2/40] \u0d2a\u0d4d\u0d30\u0d2f\u0d4b\u0d1c\u0d15 \u0d15\u0d4d\u0d30\u0d3f\u0d2f

Answer 1

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If you want the output JSON to be human-readable, use UTF-8 encoding and the ensure_ascii=False<\/code> parameter:<\/i>

with open('messages.json', 'w', encoding='utf8') as outfile:
        json.dump(all_messages, outfile, cls=DateTimeEncoder,ensure_ascii=False)

Answer 2

If you want the output JSON to be human-readable, use UTF-8 encoding and the ensure_ascii=False parameter:

with open('messages.json', 'w', encoding='utf8') as outfile:
        json.dump(all_messages, outfile, cls=DateTimeEncoder,ensure_ascii=False)

If you just want to read the data back in again, json.load will convert it back to Unicode:

with open('messages.json', encoding='utf8') as infile:
    data = json.load(infile)