cpython/Lib/json/tool.py
Benjamin Peterson c6b607d4a9 port simplejson upgrade from the trunk #4136
json also now works only with unicode strings

Patch by Antoine Pitrou; updated by me
2009-05-02 12:36:44 +00:00

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r"""Command-line tool to validate and pretty-print JSON
Usage::
$ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -m json.tool
{
"json": "obj"
}
$ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m json.tool
Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
"""
import sys
import json
def main():
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(sys.argv[0] + " [infile [outfile]]")
try:
obj = json.load(infile)
except ValueError as e:
raise SystemExit(e)
json.dump(obj, outfile, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
outfile.write('\n')
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()