How to merge two json string in Python?

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Assuming a and b are the dictionaries you want to merge:

c = {key: value for (key, value) in (a.items() + b.items())}

To convert your string to python dictionary you use the following:

import json
my_dict = json.loads(json_str)

Update: full code using strings:

# test cases for jsonStringA and jsonStringB according to your data input
jsonStringA = '{"error_1395946244342":"valueA","error_1395952003":"valueB"}'
jsonStringB = '{"error_%d":"Error Occured on machine %s in datacenter %s on the %s of process %s"}' % (timestamp_number, host_info, local_dc, step, c)

# now we have two json STRINGS
import json
dictA = json.loads(jsonStringA)
dictB = json.loads(jsonStringB)

merged_dict = {key: value for (key, value) in (dictA.items() + dictB.items())}

# string dump of the merged dict
jsonString_merged = json.dumps(merged_dict)

But I have to say that in general what you are trying to do is not the best practice. Please read a bit on python dictionaries.

Alternative solution:

jsonStringA = get_my_value_as_string_from_somewhere()
errors_dict = json.loads(jsonStringA)

new_error_str = "Error Ocurred in datacenter %s blah for step %s blah" % (datacenter, step)
new_error_key = "error_%d" % (timestamp_number)

errors_dict[new_error_key] = new_error_str

# and if I want to export it somewhere I use the following
write_my_dict_to_a_file_as_string(json.dumps(errors_dict))

And actually you can avoid all these if you just use an array to hold all your errors.

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