Question

I feel like there’s a reasonably simple solution out there for my problem.

I’m doing some data manipulation that at the end point gets printed out in a format for highcharts. Currently I’m pulling the whole set of nested dictionaries apart and printing each part out, but I was hoping there was something like JSON.dumps(dict) where the output was formatted with all keys unquoted. So, in code-ish-stuff:

{
    'chart': {'backgroundColor': 'Blue',
              'borderColor': 'Black',
              'renderTo': 'container'},
    'xAxis': { ... },
...
}

Outputs to

{
    chart: {
        backgroundColor: 'Blue',
        borderColor: 'Black',
        renderTo: 'container'},
    xAxis: { ... },
...
}

If I can’t do outputting like this is there a good way to interface with HighCharts from python? I haven’t really ran across one yet, despite some reasonable Google-Fu.

EDIT: I’m working on making this compatible with the Geckoboard – Highcharts plugin where-in I don’t get the access to the full ability of javascript for parsing the output. I need to have it already formatted and ready to roll when I send the data out.

Answer 1

Just provide the valid json text. Examples in your question are not valid json. Using Push API:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import json
import urllib2

try:
    r = urllib2.urlopen("https://push.geckoboard.com/v1/send/" + widget_key,
                        json.dumps(nested_dict))
except IOError as e:
    if hasattr(e, 'reason'):
       print "connection error:", e.reason
    elif hasattr(e, 'code'):
       print "http error:", e.code
       print e.read()
    else:
       print "error:", e
else: # success
    assert json.load(r)["success"]