## Exercise Objectives:

- Use the import statement to import a built-in package in Python.

- Use the import statement to call a function present in another Python file.

## Instructions

1. Open the file jsongenerator.py present inside project folder.

2. Import a built-in package called `json`

3. Import the following from a file called employee.py:

- A function called `details`

- Variables called `employee_name`, `age` and `title`

4. Implement the `create_dict()` function that returns a dictionary given employee information.

Create and return a dictionary with three key-value pairs where:

- Keys are string variables: `"first_name"` `age` and `title`

and their respective values are `employee_name`, `age` and `title` variables that we have imported from the employee module.

- Be sure to cast the values to the expected types.

5. Use a function called `dumps()` from the json module using dot notation and pass the `employee_dict` dictionary that we have created to it.

Return its value to a variable named `json_object`.

The format of the same should look like:

```

variable = json.dumps(dict)

```

6. Complete the `write_json_to_file()` function

- Use a built-in function called `open()` and pass the `output_file` argument and `w` to it.

Return the value of this function to a variable named newfile.

- Call a function called `write()` over this variable newfile. Pass the `json_object` variable you created in Step 5 inside it.

- Close this file by calling a built-in function `close()` directly on newfile. You dont need to pass any arguments here.

7. Save the files

8. Open the terminal to execute the files

9. Run the code using the command (within project directory)

```

python3 jsongenerator.py

```

jsongenerator.py File:

'''

Import statements:

1. Import the built-in json python package

2. From employee.py, import the details function and the employee_name, age, title variables

'''

### WRITE IMPORT STATEMENTS HERE

def create_dict(name, age, title):

""" Creates a dictionary that stores an employee's information

[IMPLEMENT ME]

1. Return a dictionary that maps "first_name" to name, "age" to age, and "title" to title

Args:

name: Name of employee

age: Age of employee

title: Title of employee

Returns:

dict - A dictionary that maps "first_name", "age", and "title" to the

name, age, and title arguments, respectively. Make sure that

the values are typecasted correctly (name - string, age - int,

title - string)

"""

### WRITE SOLUTION HERE

raise NotImplementedError()

def write_json_to_file(json_obj, output_file):

""" Write json string to file

[IMPLEMENT ME]

1. Open a new file defined by output_file

2. Write json_obj to the new file

Args:

json_obj: json string containing employee information

output_file: the file the json is being written to

"""

### WRITE SOLUTION HERE

raise NotImplementedError()

def main():

# Print the contents of details() -- This should print the details of an employee

details()

# Create employee dictionary

employee_dict = create_dict(employee_name, age, title)

print("employee_dict: " + str(employee_dict))

'''

Use a function called dumps from the json module to convert employee_dict

into a json string and store it in a variable called json_object.

'''

### WRITE YOUR CODE BY MODIFYING THE LINE BELOW

# In the line below replace the None keyword with your code.

# The format should look like: variable = json.dumps(dict)

json_object = None

print("json_object: " + str(json_object))

# Write out the json object to file

write_json_to_file(json_object, "employee.json")

if __name__ == "__main__":

main()

In Python Please!