"""Command-line tool to validate and pretty-print JSON See `json.__main__` for a usage example (invocation as `python -m json.tool` is supported for backwards compatibility). """ import argparse import json import sys def main(): description = ('A simple command line interface for json module ' 'to validate and pretty-print JSON objects.') parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description) parser.add_argument('infile', nargs='?', help='a JSON file to be validated or pretty-printed', default='-') parser.add_argument('outfile', nargs='?', help='write the output of infile to outfile', default=None) parser.add_argument('--sort-keys', action='store_true', default=False, help='sort the output of dictionaries alphabetically by key') parser.add_argument('--no-ensure-ascii', dest='ensure_ascii', action='store_false', help='disable escaping of non-ASCII characters') parser.add_argument('--json-lines', action='store_true', default=False, help='parse input using the JSON Lines format. ' 'Use with --no-indent or --compact to produce valid JSON Lines output.') group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group() group.add_argument('--indent', default=4, type=int, help='separate items with newlines and use this number ' 'of spaces for indentation') group.add_argument('--tab', action='store_const', dest='indent', const='\t', help='separate items with newlines and use ' 'tabs for indentation') group.add_argument('--no-indent', action='store_const', dest='indent', const=None, help='separate items with spaces rather than newlines') group.add_argument('--compact', action='store_true', help='suppress all whitespace separation (most compact)') options = parser.parse_args() dump_args = { 'sort_keys': options.sort_keys, 'indent': options.indent, 'ensure_ascii': options.ensure_ascii, } if options.compact: dump_args['indent'] = None dump_args['separators'] = ',', ':' try: if options.infile == '-': infile = sys.stdin else: infile = open(options.infile, encoding='utf-8') try: if options.json_lines: objs = (json.loads(line) for line in infile) else: objs = (json.load(infile),) finally: if infile is not sys.stdin: infile.close() if options.outfile is None: outfile = sys.stdout else: outfile = open(options.outfile, 'w', encoding='utf-8') with outfile: for obj in objs: json.dump(obj, outfile, **dump_args) outfile.write('\n') except ValueError as e: raise SystemExit(e) if __name__ == '__main__': try: main() except BrokenPipeError as exc: raise SystemExit(exc.errno)