How to change using python 2.7

Question

I have following python code

if b in q:
    print "id:",data['id']
    print "quest:",q
    print "result:",qa['terms'][0]

On terminal only. Just need to print on the terminal in json format — neusch, Sep 25 '17 at 17:57
I have a loop going on before if statement. And it's printing results one after the other for 3 things which I need to print — neusch, Sep 25 '17 at 18:19
Can you please show a [mcve]? What are `q` and `b`, and `data`, and `qa`? — OneCricketeer, Sep 25 '17 at 18:19

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '17 at 18:22

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If I understand correctly, start with something like this

You need to form a dictionary, not simply print the values as you get them

import json

output = []

# Some code...

if b in q:
    _data = dict()
    _data["id"] = data['id']
    _data["quest"] = q
    _data["result"] = qa['terms'][0]
    output.append(_data)

print json.dumps(output)

answered Sep 25 '17 at 18:22

OneCricketeer

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Okay. Thanks! It did work but it's not printed in the pretty format I want it to be. It's printing one after the other. – neusch Sep 25 '17 at 18:41
You can search elsewhere how to do that. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12943819/how-to-prettyprint-a-json-file – OneCricketeer Sep 25 '17 at 20:45
Yeah got it! Thanks – neusch Sep 25 '17 at 20:47
I'm getting the output in the order keys were read from json file. Meaning result, quest, id but I want it to be in the reverse order as id,quest, result. I've tried OrderedDict to no avail. Is there a way it can be achieved? – neusch Sep 25 '17 at 21:51
JSON doesn't have ordering. You can print with `sort_keys=True`, but you can not define your own order – OneCricketeer Sep 25 '17 at 21:57
I tried sort_keys but it didn't give me the order I wanted. – neusch Sep 25 '17 at 22:00
Like I said. JSON has no concept of ordering – OneCricketeer Sep 25 '17 at 23:30

How to change using python 2.7

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