Python – Sorting JSON by Keys

Python doesn’t allow sorting of a dictionary. But while converting dictionary to a JSON, you can explicitly sort it so that the resulting JSON is sorted by keys. This is true for multi-dimentional dictionary. In case you need to sort a multi-dimentional JSON, convert it to dictionary and then dump it back to JSON with sorted flag.

ud = json.loads(js)
print js # Unsorted JSON
print ud # JSON to Dictionary (Unsorted)
print json.dumps(ud, sort_keys=True) # This JSON will be sorted recursively

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