Beautify a JSON file with python

beautify_json_file.py

import simplejson as json

obj = None
with open('file.json') as f:
    obj = json.load(f)

outfile = open('file.json', "w")
outfile.write(json.dumps(obj, indent=4, sort_keys=True))
outfile.close()

Hello, @buchireddy.

I don't know if I made any major mistakes but everytime I try to dump it it ends up dumping a string containing tabs and /n in one line.

Is there any way to avoid this?

Best regards, Mathe

@mathe999 This is an old script that I've written but I think there is an awesome jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) that I would recommend now. Can you try that/