json encode in python

1# How to encode JSON as a string
2import json
3print(json.dumps({'a': 1, 'b': 2}) # '{ "a": 1, "b": 2 }'
4print(json.dumps({'b': 1, 'a': 2}, sort_keys=True, indent=4))
5# {
6#    "a": 2,
7#    "b": 1
8# }