How do I created nested JSON object with Python?

Question

I have the following code:

data = {}
data['agentid'] = 'john'
data['eventType'] = 'view'
json_data = json.dumps(data)

print json_date = {"eventType":"view,"agentid":"john"}

I would like to create a nested JSON object- for example::

{
    "agent": { "agentid", "john"} ,
    "content": {
        "eventType": "view",
        "othervar": "new"
    }
}

How would I do this? I am using Python 2.7.

Cheers Nick

probably what you are looking for is simply assignment like data = { "agent": { "agentid", "john"} , "content": { "eventType": "view", "othervar": "new" } } — Sphinx
– Sphinx, Commented Sep 11, 2018 at 17:59
I would like to maintain the format I currently have of setting each key/value pair first. Is that possible? Cheers — Nicholas
– Nicholas, Commented Sep 11, 2018 at 18:05

Nikola Lukic · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-05 21:03:08Z

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You could nest the dictionaries as follows:

jsondata = {}
agent={}
content={}
agent['agentid'] = 'john'
content['eventType'] = 'view'
content['othervar'] = "new"

jsondata['agent'] = agent
jsondata['content'] = content
print(json.dumps(jsondata))

Output:

print {"content": {"eventType": "view", "othervar": "new"}, "agent": {"agentid": "john"}}

edited Dec 5, 2019 at 21:03

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answered Sep 11, 2018 at 18:10

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lobi Over a year ago

for pretty print: print(json.dumps(jsondata, indent=4))

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