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Loading and exploring a JSON

Now that you know what a JSON is, you'll load one into your Python environment and explore it yourself. Here, you'll load the JSON 'a_movie.json' into the variable json_data, which will be a dictionary. You'll then explore the JSON contents by printing the key-value pairs of json_data to the shell.

This exercise is part of the course

Intermediate Importing Data in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Load the JSON 'a_movie.json' into the variable json_data within the context provided by the with statement. To do so, use the function json.load() within the context manager.
  • Use a for loop to print all key-value pairs in the dictionary json_data. Recall that you can access a value in a dictionary using the syntax: dictionary[key].

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Load JSON: json_data
with open("a_movie.json") as json_file:
    ____

# Print each key-value pair in json_data
for k in json_data.keys():
    print(k + ': ', ____)
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