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Basic conversion of a JSON [{"a":"b",…},{"a":"c",…}] to csv.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding=utf-8
import json
import sys
import codecs
import csv,codecs,cStringIO
class UTF8Recoder:
def __init__(self, f, encoding):
self.reader = codecs.getreader(encoding)(f)
def __iter__(self):
return self
def next(self):
return self.reader.next().encode("utf-8")
class UnicodeReader:
def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8-sig", **kwds):
f = UTF8Recoder(f, encoding)
self.reader = csv.reader(f, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
def next(self):
row = self.reader.next()
return [unicode(s, "utf-8") for s in row]
def __iter__(self):
return self
class UnicodeWriter:
def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8-sig", **kwds):
self.queue = cStringIO.StringIO()
self.writer = csv.writer(self.queue, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
self.stream = f
self.encoder = codecs.getincrementalencoder(encoding)()
def writerow(self, row):
self.writer.writerow([s.encode("utf-8") for s in row])
data = self.queue.getvalue()
data = data.decode("utf-8")
data = self.encoder.encode(data)
self.stream.write(data)
self.queue.truncate(0)
def writerows(self, rows):
for row in rows:
self.writerow(row)
j = ""
with codecs.open(sys.argv[1], "r", "utf-8") as f:
j = json.loads(f.read())
f = sys.argv[1]+".csv"
print f
fout = open(f,'wb')
writer = UnicodeWriter(fout,quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
for item in j:
# print item.values()
writer.writerow(item.values())
fout.close()
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