Check if two JSON objects are the same by first ordering them

are_two_JSON_objects_the_same.py

import json, os

# Put filenames here; this script assumes these files are in the same dir as the script
FILENAME_1 = "2.json" 
FILENAME_2 = "3.json"


def ordered(obj):
    if isinstance(obj, dict):
        return sorted((k, ordered(v)) for k, v in obj.items())
    if isinstance(obj, list):
        return sorted(ordered(x) for x in obj)
    else:
        return obj


def main():
    files = [FILENAME_1, FILENAME_2]
    ordered_files = []
    for filename in files:
        path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), filename)
        with open(path) as f:
            file_parsed = json.load(f)
        file_ordered = ordered(file_parsed)
        ordered_files.append(file_ordered)
        new_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), f"{os.path.splitext(filename)[0]}_prettier.json")
        with open(new_path, "w+") as new_file:
            json.dump(file_ordered, new_file, indent=4, sort_keys=True)

    print(ordered_files[0] == ordered_files[1])

    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Also thanks to @mythmon for giving this a look over! My Python skills are quite basic. Latest revision (6) with his feedback.