pretty-print json in python (pythonic way)

Python's builtin JSON module can handle that for you:

>>> import json
>>> a = {'hello': 'world', 'a': [1, 2, 3, 4], 'foo': 'bar'}
>>> print(json.dumps(a, indent=2))
{
  "hello": "world",
  "a": [
    1,
    2,
    3,
    4
  ],
  "foo": "bar"
}

import requests
import json
r = requests.get('http://server.com/api/2/....')
pretty_json = json.loads(r.text)
print (json.dumps(pretty_json, indent=2))

I used following code to directly get a json output from my requests-get result and pretty printed this json object with help of pythons json libary function .dumps() by using indent and sorting the object keys:

import requests
import json

response = requests.get('http://example.org')
print (json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4, sort_keys=True))

Here's a blend of all answers and an utility function to not repeat yourself:

import requests
import json

def get_pretty_json_string(value_dict):
    return json.dumps(value_dict, indent=4, sort_keys=True, ensure_ascii=False)

# example of the use
response = requests.get('http://example.org/').json()
print (get_pretty_json_string (response))

Use for show unicode values and key.

print (json.dumps(pretty_json, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

#This Should work

import requests
import json

response = requests.get('http://server.com/api/2/....')
formatted_string = json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4)
print(formatted_string)

These answers are good if you want to print the entire json/dict. However, there are times when you only want the "outline", since the values are too long. In this case you can use this:

def print_dict_outline(d, indent=0):
    for key, value in d.items():
        print(' ' * indent + str(key))
        if isinstance(value, dict):
            print_dict_outline(value, indent+2)
        elif isinstance(value, list) and all(isinstance(i, dict) for i in value):
            if len(value) > 0:
                keys = list(value[0].keys())
                print(' ' * (indent+2) + 'dict_list')
                for k in keys:
                    print(' ' * (indent+4) + str(k))

# Example dictionary with a list of dictionaries
my_dict = {
    'a': {
        'b': [
            {'c': 1, 'd': 2},
            {'c': 3, 'd': 4}
        ],
        'e': {
            'f': 5
        }
    },
    'g': 6
}

# Print the outline of the dictionary
print_dict_outline(my_dict)

The output is:

a
  b
    dict_list
      c
      d
  e
    f
g

In this implementation, if the value of a dictionary key is a list of dictionaries, we first check if the list has any elements. If it does, we define the keys of the first dictionary in the list, and print them as subheadings of 'dict_list'. We do not print the values for each dictionary in the list, only the keys. This allows us to print an outline of the nested dictionary that includes subheadings for each list of dictionaries, without printing the individual values of each dictionary.