Converting JSON String to Dictionary Not List

Question

I am trying to pass in a JSON file and convert the data into a dictionary.

So far, this is what I have done:

import json 

json1_file = open('json1') 

json1_str = json1_file.read() 

json1_data = json.loads(json1_str)

I'm expecting json1_data to be a dict type but it actually comes out as a list type when I check it with type(json1_data).

What am I missing? I need this to be a dictionary so I can access one of the keys.

Answer 1

To convert JSON string to Dictionary you can use the below-mentioned code:-

import json 

with open('<yourFile>.json', 'r') as JSON: 

json_dict = json.load(JSON) 

print(json_dict["username"])