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Converting JSON to CSV with 1 Line of Code

Ever had a large JSON file that you needed to convert to CSV? Snap.

My initial thought was to write an Awk script. Thankfully, years of being constantly pleasantly surprised by Python nudged me to take a look. Behold! (Not quite 1 line of code, but 1 line to invoke a Pandas DataFrame method.)


 import pandas as pd

 df = pd.read_json('/my/JSON/file')

 # convert to CSV
 df.to_csv()

O Python! Let me count the ways…