Items in JSON object are out of order using “json.dumps”?

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Both Python dict (before Python 3.7) and JSON object are unordered collections. You could pass sort_keys parameter, to sort the keys:

>>> import json
>>> json.dumps({'a': 1, 'b': 2})
'{"b": 2, "a": 1}'
>>> json.dumps({'a': 1, 'b': 2}, sort_keys=True)
'{"a": 1, "b": 2}'

If you need a particular order; you could use collections.OrderedDict:

>>> from collections import OrderedDict
>>> json.dumps(OrderedDict([("a", 1), ("b", 2)]))
'{"a": 1, "b": 2}'
>>> json.dumps(OrderedDict([("b", 2), ("a", 1)]))
'{"b": 2, "a": 1}'

Since Python 3.6, the keyword argument order is preserved and the above can be rewritten using a nicer syntax:

>>> json.dumps(OrderedDict(a=1, b=2))
'{"a": 1, "b": 2}'
>>> json.dumps(OrderedDict(b=2, a=1))
'{"b": 2, "a": 1}'

See PEP 468 – Preserving Keyword Argument Order.

If your input is given as JSON then to preserve the order (to get OrderedDict), you could pass object_pair_hook, as suggested by @Fred Yankowski:

>>> json.loads('{"a": 1, "b": 2}', object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)
OrderedDict([('a', 1), ('b', 2)])
>>> json.loads('{"b": 2, "a": 1}', object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)
OrderedDict([('b', 2), ('a', 1)])

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