pyjstat is a python library for JSON-stat formatted data manipulation which allows reading and writing JSON-stat [1] format with python,using the DataFrame structures provided by the widely accepted pandas library [2]. The JSON-stat format is a simple lightweight JSON format for data dissemination. Pyjstat is inspired in rjstat [3], a library to read and write JSON-stat with R, by ajschumacher. Note that, like in the rjstat project, not all features are supported (i.e. not all metadata are converted). pyjstat is provided under the Apache License 2.0.
| [1] | http://json-stat.org/ for JSON-stat information |
| [2] | http://pandas.pydata.org for Python Data Analysis Library information |
| [3] | https://github.com/ajschumacher/rjstat for rjstat library information |
pyjstat requires pandas package. For installation:
pip install pyjstat
Typical usage often looks like this:
from pyjstat import pyjstat
import urllib2
import json
results = pyjstat.from_json_stat(json.load(urllib2.urlopen(
'http://json-stat.org/samples/oecd-canada.json')))
print results
The same data can be converted into JSON-stat, with some unavoidable metadata loss:
from pyjstat import pyjstat
import urllib2
import json
results = pyjstat.from_json_stat(json.load(urllib2.urlopen(
'http://json-stat.org/samples/oecd-canada.json')))
print pyjstat.to_json_stat(results)