| Unit 15 | Reading JSON Files |
JSON is a lightweight data interchange format. Unlike pickle (mentioned earlier here), JSON is language-independent but more restricted in terms of data representation.
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Many popular websites, such as Twitter,[9] Facebook,[10] and Yahoo! Weather,[11] provide APIs that use JSON as the data interchange format. |
JSON supports the following data types:
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Atomic data types—strings, numbers, true, false, null
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Arrays—an array corresponds to a Python list; it’s enclosed in square brackets []; the items in an array don’t have to be of the same data type:
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Objects—an object ...
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