python JSON array newlines

@jterrace's answer was written for Python 2, which has since deprecated for Python 3 with changes to types. So, with all due credit to his answer, I tweaked it a tad bit for my personal use & compatibility with Python 3, including support for tuples as lists:

import numpy

INDENT = 3
SPACE = " "
NEWLINE = "\n"

# Changed basestring to str, and dict uses items() instead of iteritems().
def to_json(o, level=0):
  ret = ""
  if isinstance(o, dict):
    ret += "{" + NEWLINE
    comma = ""
    for k, v in o.items():
      ret += comma
      comma = ",\n"
      ret += SPACE * INDENT * (level + 1)
      ret += '"' + str(k) + '":' + SPACE
      ret += to_json(v, level + 1)

    ret += NEWLINE + SPACE * INDENT * level + "}"
  elif isinstance(o, str):
    ret += '"' + o + '"'
  elif isinstance(o, list):
    ret += "[" + ",".join([to_json(e, level + 1) for e in o]) + "]"
  # Tuples are interpreted as lists
  elif isinstance(o, tuple):
    ret += "[" + ",".join(to_json(e, level + 1) for e in o) + "]"
  elif isinstance(o, bool):
    ret += "true" if o else "false"
  elif isinstance(o, int):
    ret += str(o)
  elif isinstance(o, float):
    ret += '%.7g' % o
  elif isinstance(o, numpy.ndarray) and numpy.issubdtype(o.dtype, numpy.integer):
    ret += "[" + ','.join(map(str, o.flatten().tolist())) + "]"
  elif isinstance(o, numpy.ndarray) and numpy.issubdtype(o.dtype, numpy.inexact):
    ret += "[" + ','.join(map(lambda x: '%.7g' % x, o.flatten().tolist())) + "]"
  elif o is None:
    ret += 'null'
  else:
    raise TypeError("Unknown type '%s' for json serialization" % str(type(o)))
  return ret

I ended up just writing my own JSON serializer:

import numpy

INDENT = 3
SPACE = " "
NEWLINE = "\n"

def to_json(o, level=0):
    ret = ""
    if isinstance(o, dict):
        ret += "{" + NEWLINE
        comma = ""
        for k,v in o.iteritems():
            ret += comma
            comma = ",\n"
            ret += SPACE * INDENT * (level+1)
            ret += '"' + str(k) + '":' + SPACE
            ret += to_json(v, level + 1)

        ret += NEWLINE + SPACE * INDENT * level + "}"
    elif isinstance(o, basestring):
        ret += '"' + o + '"'
    elif isinstance(o, list):
        ret += "[" + ",".join([to_json(e, level+1) for e in o]) + "]"
    elif isinstance(o, bool):
        ret += "true" if o else "false"
    elif isinstance(o, int):
        ret += str(o)
    elif isinstance(o, float):
        ret += '%.7g' % o
    elif isinstance(o, numpy.ndarray) and numpy.issubdtype(o.dtype, numpy.integer):
        ret += "[" + ','.join(map(str, o.flatten().tolist())) + "]"
    elif isinstance(o, numpy.ndarray) and numpy.issubdtype(o.dtype, numpy.inexact):
        ret += "[" + ','.join(map(lambda x: '%.7g' % x, o.flatten().tolist())) + "]"
    elif o is None:
        ret += 'null'
    else:
        raise TypeError("Unknown type '%s' for json serialization" % str(type(o)))
    return ret