How to Convert CSV to JSON in Python

In this video, I show you how to easily convert CSV files into JSON files.

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[saucecode]

Thanks for the tutorial. Even after 2 years, this video was useful. Now I can use this to create api's

[andrejsopsis]

Thnak you, at most about last minute without "names"

[defaultname]

This video solved a myriad of problems, thanks

[henriquebalzani]

OMG!! thank you... Just what I needed it

[mathketeer]

Very clear, very helpful, very simple, very GREAT.

[JoeCole_social]

This saved me so much time thank you so much! please consider some sort of tip jar so I can contribute and support your efforts.

[AndreasMake]

Potentially a stupid question. Can you replace the “next” method with the actual header names as the “keys”?

[KiranKumar-zbly]

Sir what we want to do if we want to convert only particular columns of csv file into json. plz reply quickly

[aravindjeffhardy]

Very Nice, It helped me a lot. Thank you so much

[manmeetkaur]

Hi, its a great code but I have a question here, If I want the output as {Bob:28, Fred:32, Jim:35}.... Don't want the header as want both the columns as keys and values in one dictionary. How can I do that?

[xXCLAVERYXx]

Hi Thanks for this but how could I limit the size as Im using a large dataset and only really want about 1000 records.

[AndyArismendi]

I know this is a python tutorial but for what it's worth, the equivalent in powershell: @{Names = (Import-Csv names.csv)} | ConvertTo-Json

[LimpiaPeceras]

Hi! Thanks for the video. I have one error when I try to read the json "'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte". Could you help me? Thanks

[KhalilYasser]

Awesome. Thank you very much.
In the json output I noticed that the numbers are like strings. How can I make numbers as integers (without quotations in the json output)?

[mankind]

Is this method okay for when working with large set of data. I mean getting the row number might not be always easy

[olatundeibrahim]

Hello. This method is not working for csv file with larger number of rows and columns. Can someone please assist?

[olarrie]

Thanks for this tutorial, what if our CSV file had more rows and we wanted to append some of the rows to form nested dictionaries.

[amitdighe]

Thanks for your video, the only problem I am facing here is after the conversion, the order of the fields is not maintained in JSON file as of CSV. Do you have any workaround on that?

[Shubhankar.Banerjee]

Text size is very small. Difficult to read text on mobile screen.

[kyleb]

Great tutorial, do you have another where you go into more nested dictionaries?