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Build a CSV-to-JSON Converter Without Dependencies

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer shares a Python script that converts CSV files to JSON using only the standard library, avoiding heavy dependencies like pandas. The converter uses csv.DictReader and json.dump in under 20 lines of code. It returns the row count for quick validation.

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A neat snippet for simple data pipelines, but not scalable for large files or complex transformations.
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