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Re: how to compare two json file line by line using python?

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Date 2013-05-27 10:35 +0530
Subject Re: how to compare two json file line by line using python?
From Avnesh Shakya <avnesh.nitk@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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Actually, I am extracting data from other site in json format and I want to
put it in my database and when I extract data again then I want to compare
last json file, if these are same then no issue otherwise i will add new
data in database, so here may be every time data can be changed or may be
not so I think sorting is required, but if i compare line by line that will
be good, I am thinking in this way...


On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:21 AM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 27, 9:32 am, Avnesh Shakya <avnesh.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >    how to compare two json file line by line using python? Actually I am
> doing it in this way..
> >
> > import simplejson as json
> > def compare():
> >     newJsonFile= open('newData.json')
> >     lastJsonFile= open('version1.json')
> >     newLines = newJsonFile.readlines()
> >     print newLines
> >     sortedNew = sorted([repr(x) for x in newJsonFile])
> >     sortedLast = sorted([repr(x) for x in lastJsonFile])
> >     print(sortedNew == sortedLast)
> >
> > compare()
> >
> > But I want to compare line by line and value by value. but i found that
> json data is unordered data, so how can i compare them without sorting it.
> please give me some idea about it. I am new for it.
> > I want to check every value line by line.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> It really depends on what is your notion that the two files are same
> or not.
>
> For example does extra/deleted non-significant white-space matter?
>
> By and large there are two approaches:
> 1. Treat json as serialized python data-structures, (and so) read in
> the data-structures into python and compare there
>
> 2. Ignore the fact that the json file is a json file; just treat it as
> text and use string compare operations
>
> Naturally there could be other considerations: the files could be huge
> and so you might want some hybrid of json and text approaches
> etc etc
> --
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how to compare two json file line by line using python? Avnesh Shakya <avnesh.nitk@gmail.com> - 2013-05-26 21:32 -0700
  Re: how to compare two json file line by line using python? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-26 21:51 -0700
    Re: how to compare two json file line by line using python? Avnesh Shakya <avnesh.nitk@gmail.com> - 2013-05-27 10:35 +0530
  Re: how to compare two json file line by line using python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-27 05:33 +0000
    Re: how to compare two json file line by line using python? Avnesh Shakya <avnesh.nitk@gmail.com> - 2013-05-27 11:58 +0530
    Re: how to compare two json file line by line using python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-28 16:00 +0000
  Re: how to compare two json file line by line using python? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-05-27 10:50 +0000

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