Combine 2 JSON files into 1 file using Python (i.e. longitude and latitude)

lat1.json

{
    "tags": [{
        "name": "LATITUDE_deg",
        "results": [{
            "groups": [{
                "name": "type",
                "type": "number"
            }],
            "values": [
                [1123306773000, 46.9976859318, 3],
                [1123306774000, 46.9976859319, 3]
            ],
            "attributes": {
                "customer": ["Acme"],
                "host": ["server1"]
            }
        }],
        "stats": {
            "rawCount": 2
        }
    }]
}

lat2.json

{
    "tags": [{
        "name": "LATITUDE_deg",
        "results": [{
            "groups": [{
                "name": "type",
                "type": "number"
            }],
            "values": [
                [1123306773000, 46.9976859318, 3],
                [1123306774000, 46.9976859319, 3]
            ],
            "attributes": {
                "customer": ["Acme"],
                "host": ["server1"]
            }
        }],
        "stats": {
            "rawCount": 200
        }
    }]
}

long1.json

{
    "tags": [{
        "name": "LONGITUDE_deg",
        "results": [{
            "groups": [{
                "name": "type",
                "type": "number"
            }],
            "values": [
                [1123306773000, 36.9976859318, 3],
                [1123306774000, 36.9976859317, 3]
            ],
            "attributes": {
                "customer": ["Acme"],
                "host": ["server1"]
            }
        }],
        "stats": {
            "rawCount": 2
        }
    }]
}

long2.json

{
    "tags": [{
        "name": "LONGITUDE_deg",
        "results": [{
            "groups": [{
                "name": "type",
                "type": "number"
            }],
            "values": [
                [1123306773000, 36.9976859318, 3],
                [1123306774000, 36.9976859317, 3]
            ],
            "attributes": {
                "customer": ["Acme"],
                "host": ["server1"]
            }
        }],
        "stats": {
            "rawCount": 200
        }
    }]
}

mergeLatitudeLongitude.py

'''Copyright 2017 ALT-F1 SPRL (http://www.alt-f1.be), AMIA SYSTEMS S.A.(http://www.amia-systems.com)

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'''

# Read the use case on Stack Overflow: http://bit.ly/2rmm3Uu


import copy
import json

JSON_LAT_FILES = [r"data/lat1.json", r"data/lat2.json"]
JSON_LONG_FILES = [r"data/long1.json", r"data/long2.json"]
JSON_LAT_LONG_FILES = [r"data/lat_long1.json", r"data/lat_long2.json"]


def get_string_from_file(file_name):
    with open(file_name, 'r') as my_file:
        return my_file.read().replace('\n', '')


def merge_two_json_files(lat_filename, long_filename, out_filename):
    lat_string = get_string_from_file(lat_filename)
    lat_data = json.loads(lat_string)

    long_string = get_string_from_file(long_filename)
    long_data = json.loads(long_string)

    lat_long_data = copy.deepcopy(lat_data)

    lat_long_data['tags'][0]['name'] = (lat_data['tags'][0]['name'] + ' ' +
                                        long_data['tags'][0]['name'])

    lat_values = lat_data['tags'][0]['results'][0]['values']
    long_values = long_data['tags'][0]['results'][0]['values']

    lat_long_values = []

    assert (len(lat_values) == len(long_values))
    for idx in range(len(lat_values)):
        lat_value = lat_values[idx]
        long_value = long_values[idx]
        lat_long_value = [lat_value[0], lat_value[1], long_value[1],
                          lat_value[2]]
        lat_long_values.append(lat_long_value)

    lat_long_data['tags'][0]['results'][0]['values'] = lat_long_values

    out_file = open(out_filename, 'w')
    out_file.write(json.dumps(lat_long_data, ensure_ascii=False, indent=True))
    out_file.close()


def merge_json_files():
    assert(len(JSON_LAT_FILES) == len(JSON_LONG_FILES) ==
           len(JSON_LAT_LONG_FILES))
    for idx in range(len(JSON_LAT_FILES)):
        merge_two_json_files(JSON_LAT_FILES[idx], JSON_LONG_FILES[idx],
                             JSON_LAT_LONG_FILES[idx])


def main():
    merge_json_files()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

USE CASE:

I want to append the longitude to a latitude stored in 2 separated json files (long1.json, lat1.json) and (long2.json, lat2.json)

The result should be stored in a 3rd file (lat_long1.json and lat_long2.json)

See http://bit.ly/2rmm3Uu