Reads a JSON from STDIN and prints a python dict

json2dict

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# vi: set ft=python :
"""
Convert a JSON from stdin in a python dict. Ex:

$ echo '{"foo": "bar"}' | ./json2dict
> {u'foo': u'bar'}

Install:

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/renanivo/983c745615cb9ea35bc4f675ce913903/raw/db4adcb07e8ed47a26e3a79271c6425e74bb9ca7/json2dict > json2dict; chmod +x json2dict
"""

import json
import sys

COLOR_FAIL = '\033[91m'
COLOR_END = '\033[0m'

try:
    print json.load(sys.stdin)
    sys.exit(0)

except ValueError as e:
    print '{}Invalid JSON{}'.format(COLOR_FAIL, COLOR_END)
    print e

    sys.exit(1)