json

• Function: Converts lists, tuples, and dictionaries into JSON strings
• JSON: JavaScriptObjectNotation chords (JS), is a lightweight data-interchange format, based on a subset of the ECMAScript, completely independent of the programming language of the text format is used to store and said object

Four methods

1. dumps

• Convert dictionaries, lists, collections, tuples, and so on to JSON strings
• The JSON string is the same as that of the dictionary. Operations related to the dictionary cannot be performed

2. dump

3. loads

• Converts a JSON string to a raw Python data type
• With the eval

4. load

Python data types versus JSON data types

• Tuples are converted to arrays and then to lists, but cannot be converted to tuples