This brief piece of code outlines how to convert an alpca

Convert Alpaca to Evol Dataset.py

def convert_alpaca_to_evol(
    file_path: str, 
    lines: bool = False,
    output_file: str = "converted_alpaca.json"
):
    """Convert the Instruction/Input/Output format of Alpaca Instruct datasets
    to the Evol-Instruct format of Instruction/Output. Inputs are appended to the
    instructions.
    
    Args:
        file_path: the file path to a single JSON file in alpaca format
        lines: Set to True if the input is a JSONL file, the default is False
        
    Returns: a list of the instruction-output pairs generated from the alpaca set"""
    result = []
    if lines:
        with open(file_path, "r") as json_file:
            loaded_json = [json.loads(line) for line in json_file]
        for record in loaded_json:
            if record["instances"][0]["input"]:
                record["instruction"] += '\n' + record["instances"][0]["input"]
            result.append({
                "instruction": record["instruction"],
                "output": record["instances"][0]["output"]
            })
    else:
        with open(file_path, "r") as json_file:
            loaded_json = json.load(json_file)
        for record in loaded_json:
            if record["input"]:
                record["instruction"] += '\n' + record["input"]
            result.append({
                "instruction": record["instruction"],
                "output": record["output"]
            })
    with open(output_file, "w") as fp:
        json.dump(result, fp)
    return result