It is apples vs. oranges comparison: JSON is a data format (a string), Python dictionary is a data structure (in-memory object). If you need to exchange data between different (perhaps even non …

Aug 11, 2016 · Other languages must be having different names for their dictionary type data structure then it will convert the string to those type of data structure. In python to be able to convert from …

Oct 9, 2022 · I'm going through 100 Days of Python and reading "Introducing Python" by O'Reilly one thing that bothers me is the dict (insert funny joke). But seriously, what's the difference between a …

Jun 18, 2018 · Python dictionaries are a map implementation, so directly serializing a dictionary to JSON with the intent to represent a map-like collection goes against the intended use of JSON. For an …

Apr 7, 2011 · This stuff you think is JSON is, in fact, a dictionary, one of many kinds of objects in Python. The (easy) syntax for building a dictionary in Python is pretty close to JSON but it is incidental.

Nov 5, 2014 · The JSON is loaded into a new variable not because it is new information, but to show that the values in the new dictionary, i.e. after the JSON encode and decode round-trip, are identical.

139 I prefer JSON over pickle for my serialization. Unpickling can run arbitrary code, and using pickle to transfer data between programs or store data between sessions is a security hole. JSON does not …

Dec 17, 2022 · A JSON object is similar to a dictionary, and a JSON array is similar to a list. Pretty much any JSON data structure can be translated into a complex Python data object.

The idea would be to serialize the python into json with json.dumps, then call json.loads on it when it is in the str form.

May 12, 2016 · From json.org: JSON is built on two structures: A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or …