Hi,

I would like to read json into Python code, and then output processed json. In order to get started with this, I have written very basic Python, and am attempting to read in very basic json I found online.

The input json is:

{
    "firstName": "John",
    "lastName": "Doe",
    "hobbies": ["biking", "coding", "rapping"],
    "age": 35,
    "children": [
        {
            "firstName": "hector",
            "age": 6
        },
        {
            "firstName": "cassandra",
            "age": 8
        }
    ]
}

The code is:

import json

if __name__ == '__main__':
    
    print( "start" )

    # read and load input json
    json_input_filename = "input.json"
    json_input = open( json_input_filename )

    json_input_dict = json.load( json_input )

    # write output json
    json_output_filename = "output.json"
    with open( json_output_filename, 'w' ) as json_output:
        json.dump( json_string, json_output )
  

    print( f"end" )

and the output is:

"{\"firstName\": \"John\", \"lastName\": \"Doe\", \"hobbies\": [\"biking\", \"coding\", \"rapping\"], \"age\": 35, \"children\": [{\"firstName\": \"hector\", \"age\": 6}, {\"firstName\": \"cassandra\", \"age\": 8}]}"

What can I do in order to preserve something resembling the original formatting? I'm going to load this output into some other code in order to process it further.

Thank you very much