py-jsonl 1.3.8

A simple Python library for handling jsonlines files.

jsonl

About

jsonl is a library that includes useful tools for working with jsonlines data as described: https://jsonlines.org/

Features:

• 🌎 Offers an API similar to Python's standard json module.
• 🚀 Supports custom serialization/deserialization callbacks. By default, it uses the standard json module.
• 🗜️ Enables compression using gzip, bzip2, and xz formats.
• 🔧 Load files containing broken lines, skipping any malformed lines.
• 📦 Provides a simple API for incremental writing to multiple files.

Installation (via pip)

pip install py-jsonl

Getting Started

Dump an iterable to a JSON Lines file.

import jsonl

data = [
    {"name": "Gilbert", "wins": [["straight", "7♣"], ["one pair", "10♥"]]},
    {"name": "May", "wins": []},
]

jsonl.dump(data, "file.jsonl")

Load a JSON Lines file into an iterable of objects.

import jsonl

path = "file.jsonl"
data = [
    {"name": "Gilbert", "wins": [["straight", "7♣"], ["one pair", "10♥"]]},
    {"name": "May", "wins": []},
]

jsonl.dump(data, path)
iterable = jsonl.load(path)
print(tuple(iterable))

Documentation

See project documentation for more details and examples.

Development

Unit tests

(env)$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt   # Ignore this command if it has already been executed
(env)$ pytest tests/
(env)$ pytest --cov jsonl # Tests with coverge

Build documentation

(env)$ pip install -r requirements-docs.txt   # Ignore this command if it has already been executed
(env)$ mkdocs serve # Start the live-reloading docs server
(env)$ mkdocs build # Build the documentation site

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.