How to convert CSV file to multiline JSON?

I took @SingleNegationElimination's response and simplified it into a three-liner that can be used in a pipeline:

import csv
import json
import sys

for row in csv.DictReader(sys.stdin):
    json.dump(row, sys.stdout)
    sys.stdout.write('\n')

import csv
import json

file = 'csv_file_name.csv'
json_file = 'output_file_name.json'

#Read CSV File
def read_CSV(file, json_file):
    csv_rows = []
    with open(file) as csvfile:
        reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)
        field = reader.fieldnames
        for row in reader:
            csv_rows.extend([{field[i]:row[field[i]] for i in range(len(field))}])
        convert_write_json(csv_rows, json_file)

#Convert csv data into json
def convert_write_json(data, json_file):
    with open(json_file, "w") as f:
        f.write(json.dumps(data, sort_keys=False, indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))) #for pretty
        f.write(json.dumps(data))


read_CSV(file,json_file)

Documentation of json.dumps()

You can use Pandas DataFrame to achieve this, with the following Example:

import pandas as pd
csv_file = pd.DataFrame(pd.read_csv("path/to/file.csv", sep = ",", header = 0, index_col = False))
csv_file.to_json("/path/to/new/file.json", orient = "records", date_format = "epoch", double_precision = 10, force_ascii = True, date_unit = "ms", default_handler = None)

The problem with your desired output is that it is not valid json document,; it's a stream of json documents!

That's okay, if its what you need, but that means that for each document you want in your output, you'll have to call json.dumps.

Since the newline you want separating your documents is not contained in those documents, you're on the hook for supplying it yourself. So we just need to pull the loop out of the call to json.dump and interpose newlines for each document written.

import csv
import json

csvfile = open('file.csv', 'r')
jsonfile = open('file.json', 'w')

fieldnames = ("FirstName","LastName","IDNumber","Message")
reader = csv.DictReader( csvfile, fieldnames)
for row in reader:
    json.dump(row, jsonfile)
    jsonfile.write('\n')