200-901 Software Development and Design Practice Question
A developer needs to parse a JSON string received from a REST API into a Python dictionary. Which function should they use?
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json.loads()
json.loads() converts a JSON string into a Python object (dict, list, etc.).
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json.dumps()
Why it's wrong here
dumps converts Python object to JSON string.
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json.loads()
Why this is correct
loads parses JSON string to Python dict.
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json.load()
Why it's wrong here
load reads from a file.
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json.dump()
Why it's wrong here
dump writes to a file.
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