Converting CSV to JSON array in Python

Hello folks, today we are going to learn how to convert CSV data to JSON array in Python.

Convert CSV to JSON array using CSV and JSON libraries in Python

Let us consider in a folder there are two files. One is csvfile.csv and the other one is jsonfile.json

jsonfile,json is an empty file.

csvfile.csv consists of the following data:

Student id, Course id, Marks
1001, 2001, 56
1002, 2001, 67
1003, 2001, 78
1004, 2001, 90
1005, 2001, 45
1001, 2002, 58
1002, 2002, 98
1009, 2002, 12
1007, 2002, 99
1008, 2002, 39
1003, 2003, 34
1004, 2003, 43
1000, 2003, 25
1060, 2003, 60
1090, 2003, 88
1005, 2004, 81
1080, 2004, 59
1030, 2004, 87
1001, 2004, 35
1090, 2004, 33

 

Our goal is to convert the above CSV data into JSON array and store it in jsonfile.json

Libraries used:

• csv
• json

Steps:

• Declare a dictionary called jsondict
• Open and read the CSV file
• Declare a list in jsondict for a key
• Now append each row in that list
• After appending all the rows, open jsonfile.json and dump the dictionary using json.dumps() method.

Code:

import csv  
import json  
  
def csv_to_json(csvFile, jsonFile):    
    jsondict = {}  
    with open(csvFile) as csvfile:  
        csv_data = csv.DictReader(csvfile)#Converting the csv data into dictionary
        jsondict["data"]=[]

        for rows in csv_data:  
            print(rows)#Just for reference
            jsondict["data"].append(rows)  #Appending all the csv rows
  

    with open(jsonFile, 'w') as jsonfile:  
        #Dumping the data into jsonfile.json
        jsonfile.write(json.dumps(jsondict, indent = 4))  #indent is used for pretty printing 
csvfile = 'csvfile.csv'  
jsonfile = 'jsonfile.json'  
  

csv_to_json(csvfile, jsonfile)#Calling the function

Output:

After executing the above code,csv data is converted into json data and stored in jsonfile.json

Also Read:

Converting JSON data to CSV