我有一个JSON文件,我想转换为CSV文件。我如何用Python做到这一点?

我试着:

import json
import csv

f = open('data.json')
data = json.load(f)
f.close()

f = open('data.csv')
csv_file = csv.writer(f)
for item in data:
    csv_file.writerow(item)

f.close()

然而,这并没有起作用。我正在使用Django和我收到的错误是:

`file' object has no attribute 'writerow'`

然后我尝试了以下方法:

import json
import csv

f = open('data.json')
data = json.load(f)
f.close()

f = open('data.csv')
csv_file = csv.writer(f)
for item in data:
    f.writerow(item)  # ← changed

f.close()

然后得到错误:

`sequence expected`

样本json文件:

[{
        "pk": 22,
        "model": "auth.permission",
        "fields": {
            "codename": "add_logentry",
            "name": "Can add log entry",
            "content_type": 8
        }
    }, {
        "pk": 23,
        "model": "auth.permission",
        "fields": {
            "codename": "change_logentry",
            "name": "Can change log entry",
            "content_type": 8
        }
    }, {
        "pk": 24,
        "model": "auth.permission",
        "fields": {
            "codename": "delete_logentry",
            "name": "Can delete log entry",
            "content_type": 8
        }
    }, {
        "pk": 4,
        "model": "auth.permission",
        "fields": {
            "codename": "add_group",
            "name": "Can add group",
            "content_type": 2
        }
    }, {
        "pk": 10,
        "model": "auth.permission",
        "fields": {
            "codename": "add_message",
            "name": "Can add message",
            "content_type": 4
        }
    }
]

当前回答

JSON可以表示各种各样的数据结构——JS的“对象”大致类似于Python的dict(带有字符串键),JS的“数组”大致类似于Python列表,只要最后的“叶子”元素是数字或字符串,你就可以嵌套它们。

CSV本质上只能表示一个2-D表——可选的第一行是“标题”,即“列名”,这可以使表可解释为字典列表,而不是正常的解释,一个列表的列表(同样,“叶子”元素可以是数字或字符串)。

So, in the general case, you can't translate an arbitrary JSON structure to a CSV. In a few special cases you can (array of arrays with no further nesting; arrays of objects which all have exactly the same keys). Which special case, if any, applies to your problem? The details of the solution depend on which special case you do have. Given the astonishing fact that you don't even mention which one applies, I suspect you may not have considered the constraint, neither usable case in fact applies, and your problem is impossible to solve. But please do clarify!

其他回答

首先,JSON包含嵌套对象,因此通常不能直接转换为CSV。你需要把它改成这样:

{
    "pk": 22,
    "model": "auth.permission",
    "codename": "add_logentry",
    "content_type": 8,
    "name": "Can add log entry"
},
......]

下面是我的代码来生成CSV:

import csv
import json

x = """[
    {
        "pk": 22,
        "model": "auth.permission",
        "fields": {
            "codename": "add_logentry",
            "name": "Can add log entry",
            "content_type": 8
        }
    },
    {
        "pk": 23,
        "model": "auth.permission",
        "fields": {
            "codename": "change_logentry",
            "name": "Can change log entry",
            "content_type": 8
        }
    },
    {
        "pk": 24,
        "model": "auth.permission",
        "fields": {
            "codename": "delete_logentry",
            "name": "Can delete log entry",
            "content_type": 8
        }
    }
]"""

x = json.loads(x)

f = csv.writer(open("test.csv", "wb+"))

# Write CSV Header, If you dont need that, remove this line
f.writerow(["pk", "model", "codename", "name", "content_type"])

for x in x:
    f.writerow([x["pk"],
                x["model"],
                x["fields"]["codename"],
                x["fields"]["name"],
                x["fields"]["content_type"]])

你会得到如下输出:

pk,model,codename,name,content_type
22,auth.permission,add_logentry,Can add log entry,8
23,auth.permission,change_logentry,Can change log entry,8
24,auth.permission,delete_logentry,Can delete log entry,8

修改了Alec McGail的答案,以支持包含列表的JSON

    def flattenjson(self, mp, delim="|"):
            ret = []
            if isinstance(mp, dict):
                    for k in mp.keys():
                            csvs = self.flattenjson(mp[k], delim)
                            for csv in csvs:
                                    ret.append(k + delim + csv)
            elif isinstance(mp, list):
                    for k in mp:
                            csvs = self.flattenjson(k, delim)
                            for csv in csvs:
                                    ret.append(csv)
            else:
                    ret.append(mp)

            return ret

谢谢!

使用csv.DictWriter()很容易,详细的实现可以像这样:

def read_json(filename):
    return json.loads(open(filename).read())
def write_csv(data,filename):
    with open(filename, 'w+') as outf:
        writer = csv.DictWriter(outf, data[0].keys())
        writer.writeheader()
        for row in data:
            writer.writerow(row)
# implement
write_csv(read_json('test.json'), 'output.csv')

注意,这假设所有JSON对象都具有相同的字段。

这是一份可能对你有帮助的参考资料。

使用pandas库,这就像使用两个命令一样简单!

df = pd.read_json()

read_json将JSON字符串转换为pandas对象(序列或数据帧)。然后:

df.to_csv()

它既可以返回字符串,也可以直接写入csv文件。请参阅to_csv的文档。

根据之前的冗长回答,我们都应该感谢熊猫提供的这条捷径。

关于非结构化JSON,请参阅这个答案。

编辑: 有人问我一个最小的例子:

import pandas as pd

with open('jsonfile.json', encoding='utf-8') as inputfile:
    df = pd.read_json(inputfile)

df.to_csv('csvfile.csv', encoding='utf-8', index=False)

由于数据看起来是字典格式,因此似乎应该实际使用csv.DictWriter()来实际输出带有适当标题信息的行。这将使转换更容易处理。然后fieldnames参数将正确地设置顺序,而第一行的输出作为标题将允许稍后由csv.DictReader()读取和处理。

例如,Mike Repass使用

output = csv.writer(sys.stdout)

output.writerow(data[0].keys())  # header row

for row in data:
  output.writerow(row.values())

不过,只需将初始设置更改为 输出= csv。DictWriter数据(文件集,字段名= [0]. keys ())

注意,由于字典中元素的顺序没有定义,您可能必须显式地创建字段名条目。一旦你这样做了,writerow就可以工作了。然后写操作就像最初显示的那样工作。