r"""Using simplejson from the shell to validate and pretty-print:: $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -msimplejson.tool { "json": "obj" } $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -msimplejson.tool Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2) """ from django.utils import simplejson def main(): import sys if len(sys.argv) == 1: infile = sys.stdin outfile = sys.stdout elif len(sys.argv) == 2: infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') outfile = sys.stdout elif len(sys.argv) == 3: infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') outfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'wb') else: raise SystemExit("%s [infile [outfile]]" % (sys.argv[0],)) try: obj = simplejson.load(infile) except ValueError, e: raise SystemExit(e) simplejson.dump(obj, outfile, sort_keys=True, indent=4) outfile.write('\n') if __name__ == '__main__': main()