Pretty-Print JSON Data to a File using Python

import json

with open("twitterdata.json", "w") as twitter_data_file:
    json.dump(output, twitter_data_file, indent=4, sort_keys=True)

You don't need json.dumps() if you don't want to parse the string later, just simply use json.dump(). It's faster too.

You can parse the JSON, then output it again with indents like this:

import json
mydata = json.loads(output)
print json.dumps(mydata, indent=4)

See http://docs.python.org/library/json.html for more info.

You can use json module of python to pretty print.

>>> import json
>>> print json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
{
    "4": 5,
    "6": 7
}

So, in your case

>>> print json.dumps(json_output, indent=4)

You should use the optional argument indent.

header, output = client.request(twitterRequest, method="GET", body=None,
                            headers=None, force_auth_header=True)

# now write output to a file
twitterDataFile = open("twitterData.json", "w")
# magic happens here to make it pretty-printed
twitterDataFile.write(simplejson.dumps(simplejson.loads(output), indent=4, sort_keys=True))
twitterDataFile.close()