A very basic solution to prettify a JSON file.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
A very basic solution to prettify a JSON file.
Usage:
prettyjson.py ugly.json
A better way is to use jq at https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ .
Usage of jq:
cat ugly.json | jq
"""
import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path
def beautify(fname):
"""
Beautify the content of the file and return it as a string.
"""
try:
with open(fname) as f:
d = json.load(f)
except FileNotFoundError:
print("Error: cannot open the input file.", file=sys.stderr)
exit(1)
except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError as e:
print("Error: there is something wrong with this file.", file=sys.stderr)
print(e, file=sys.stderr)
exit(1)
#
return json.dumps(d, indent=2)
##############################################################################
if __name__ == "__main__":
try:
fname = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
p = Path(sys.argv[0])
print("Usage: {} ugly.json".format(p.name), file=sys.stderr)
exit(1)
#
print(beautify(fname))