How to Write Data to a JSON File using Python

Here are 3 ways to write data to a json file using Python:

(1) Single dictionary to a json file:

import json

data = {
    "product": "Computer",
    "price": 1300,
    "brand": "A"
}

file_path = r"path to save the json file\file_name.json"

with open(file_path, "w") as file:
    json.dump(data, file, indent=4)

Where:

“w” stands for a write mode
json.dump() writes the data to a json file with a specified indentation for readability

The resulted json file:

{
    "product": "Computer",
    "price": 1300,
    "brand": "A"
}

(2) Single dictionary of keys, and values consisting of lists of multiple entries:

import json

data = {
    "product": ["Computer", "Printer", "Tablet"],
    "price": [1300, 150, 400],
    "brand": ["A", "B", "C"]
}

file_path = r"path to save the json file\file_name.json"

with open(file_path, "w") as file:
    json.dump(data, file, indent=4)

The result:

{
    "product": [
        "Computer",
        "Printer",
        "Tablet"
    ],
    "price": [
        1300,
        150,
        400
    ],
    "brand": [
        "A",
        "B",
        "C"
    ]
}

(3) List of dictionaries containing multiple entries:

import json

data = [
    {
        "product": "Computer",
        "price": 1300,
        "brand": "A"
    },
    {
        "product": "Printer",
        "price": 150,
        "brand": "B"
    },
    {
        "product": "Tablet",
        "price": 400,
        "brand": "C"
    }
]

file_path = r"path to save the json file\file_name.json"

with open(file_path, "w") as file:
    json.dump(data, file, indent=4)

The result:

[
    {
        "product": "Computer",
        "price": 1300,
        "brand": "A"
    },
    {
        "product": "Printer",
        "price": 150,
        "brand": "B"
    },
    {
        "product": "Tablet",
        "price": 400,
        "brand": "C"
    }
]

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