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[clinton/xbmc-groove.git] / resources / lib / simplejson / tool.py
1 r"""Command-line tool to validate and pretty-print JSON
2
3 Usage::
4
5 $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -m simplejson.tool
6 {
7 "json": "obj"
8 }
9 $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m simplejson.tool
10 Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
11
12 """
13 import sys
14 import simplejson
15
16 def main():
17 if len(sys.argv) == 1:
18 infile = sys.stdin
19 outfile = sys.stdout
20 elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
21 infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
22 outfile = sys.stdout
23 elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
24 infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
25 outfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'wb')
26 else:
27 raise SystemExit(sys.argv[0] + " [infile [outfile]]")
28 try:
29 obj = simplejson.load(infile)
30 except ValueError, e:
31 raise SystemExit(e)
32 simplejson.dump(obj, outfile, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
33 outfile.write('\n')
34
35
36 if __name__ == '__main__':
37 main()