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Parsing and serializing JSON

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Parsing and serializing JSON

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- [Instructor] All right, let's try working on a real JSON example. And here in VS code, I'll open up JSON underscore parse underscore start dot py. And, to work with JSON, I first have to import the JSON module into my program. So I'll write import JSON. And you can see that I've already defined a string here containing some JSON formatted data. So we're going to do two things. First, we'll parse this JSON data into a Python object. And then, we'll access some of the data in that object. So, to parse this data, I'm going to use the load S function, since I already have the data in a string. Now, in a real app, this data could be coming from a file, or from a call to the Requests library, or some other data source. So I'll write data equals JSON dot load S. And I'll just pass the JSONStr that I have right here. And this will build a native Python dictionary object for me. So once I have that object, I can then work with it like any other Python dictionary. So first, let's go ahead and…

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