Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: pydict2json
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: Given a printed python dict, convert it to JSON
Home-page: https://github.com/ralexander-phi/python-str-dict-to-json
Author: Robert Alexander
Author-email: raalexander.phi@gmail.com
License: MIT
Description: Convert the string representation of a Python dictionary to JSON
        
        You've got a Python dictionary that was printed to a log file.  You want to run it through JSON tools, like [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) but it's not actually JSON.
        
        This command line tool allows you convert to JSON.
        
        
        ## Why?
        
        If you're the owner of a python script that writes simply does `print(str(d))` you should consider changing it to use `print(json.dumps(d))` instead.
        However, you're not always the owner of scripts you use and you can't always change the code.
        Instead, convert from the python string representation of a dictionary to JSON.
        
        
        ## Examples
        
        ```
        $ cat input.txt
        {'example': {'number': 42, 'text': 'lorem ipsum', 'boolean': True}}
        ```
        
        Let's convert it to JSON with:
        
        ```
        $ cat input.txt | python3 -m pydict2json
        {"example": {"number": 42, "text": "lorem ipsum", "boolean": true}}
        ```
        
        That's hard to read, let's pretty print:
        
        ```
        $ cat input.txt | python3 -m pydict2json --pretty
        {
          "example": {
            "number": 42,
            "text": "lorem ipsum",
            "boolean": true
          }
        }
        ```
        
        Much better.
        
        Now that it's JSON we can use all our favorite JSON tools like `jq`:
        
        ```
        $ cat input.txt | python3 -m pydict2json | jq .example.number
        42
        ```
        
        The tool also supports input directly on the command line:
        
        ```
        $ python3 -m pydict2json --literal "{'a': None}"
        {"a": null}
        ```
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
Requires-Python: >=3.6
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