Re: [IBMiOSS] Python json Command Line Interface

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

Normally I would trim content except for the minimum needed for
context, but in this case I'm transplanting the whole thing from the
RPG list, so the original e-mail in its entirety is quoted at the
bottom.

Craig, the answer is that it is simplest if you switch to the
RPM-based distributions, installed via yum:

http://ibm.biz/ibmi-rpms

That way you have Python 3.6, and PTFs are a thing of the past, at
least as far as open source on the i.

John Y.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:11 PM Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd quite like to use the Python json Command Line Interface.
>
> My OS is V7R3M0 and the versions of Python Installed are:
>
> 3.4.6 and
> 2.7.13
>
> I can get the tool to work without issues but the current version of
> json.tool sorts the keys of the output file which is behaviour I don't want.
>
> According to the documentation, in version 3.5 the output was changed to
> default to the same order as input, and a --sort-keys option added for
> anyone wanting that feature.
>
> As far as I can see, the latest PTF for Python Runtime for IBMi is SI66070
> which is for version 3.4.6 which is already installed.
>
> Forgive my ignorance but in the documentation at
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html where it talks about the
> command line options and specifically the bit about output sort order being
> changed in version 3.5 - does that mean that I need to wait until there is
> a PTF for 3.5 of the Python runtime before I can get access to this version
> of the json.tool module?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Craig
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