What is the preferred method for returning null values in JSON? Is there a different preference for primitives? For example, if my object on the server has an Integer called …

Yes. The JSON format has a lot of dead-space between elements and is space-insensitive in those regions, so there's no reason why you can't have single or multi-line comments there. …

A JSON string must be double-quoted, according to the specs, so you don't need to escape '. If you have to use special character in your JSON string, you can escape it using \ character. …

json dump will write the json as string in the file. How can I get a json file that is not in the form of string, but just dictionary-like? Is it possible?

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and JSONP ("JSON with padding") formats seems to be very similar and therefore it might be very confusing which MIME type they should be using.

Any recommendations on how to embed JSON in an HTML page with the JSON formatted in a human readable style? For example, when you view XML in a browser, most browsers display …

jq . some.json and you get colors as a bonus (and way easier extendability). Addendum: There is some confusion in the comments about using jq to process large JSON files on the one hand, …

Adding another solution (Python 3) - Iterating over json files in a directory and on each file iterating over all objects and printing relevant fields. See comments in the code.

Is there a way to parse strings as JSON in TypeScript? For example in JavaScript, we can use JSON.parse(). Is there a similar function in TypeScript? I have a JSON object string as follows: …

The request must have the application/json content type, or use request.get_json(force=True) to ignore the content type. All of these are MultiDict instances (except for json).