Access key value from JSON array of objects Python
turns out it was the json.dumps(), should've read more into what it does! Thanks.
I've been researching the past few days on how to achieve this, to no avail.
I have a JSON file with a large array of json objects like so:
[{
    "tweet": "@SHendersonFreep @realDonaldTrump watch your portfolios go to the Caribbean banks and on to Switzerland. Speculation without regulation",
    "user": "DGregsonRN"
},{
    "tweet": "RT @CodeAud: James Mattis Vs Iran.\n\"The appointment of Mattis by @realDonaldTrump got the Iranian military leaders' more attention\". https:\u2026",
    "user": "American1765"
},{
    "tweet": "@realDonaldTrump the oyou seem to be only fraud I see is you, and seem scared since you want to block the recount???hmm cheater",
    "user": "tgg216"
},{
    "tweet": "RT @realDonaldTrump: @Lord_Sugar Dopey Sugar--because it was open all season long--you can't play golf in the snow, you stupid ass.",
    "user": "grepsalot"
},{
    "tweet": "RT @Prayer4Chandler: @realDonaldTrump Hello Mr. President, would you be willing to meet Chairman #ManHeeLee of #HWPL to discuss the #PeaceT\u2026",
    "user": "harrymalpoy1"
},{
    "tweet": "RT @realDonaldTrump: Thank you Ohio! Together, we made history \u2013 and now, the real work begins. America will start winning again! #AmericaF\u2026",
    "user": "trumpemall"
}]
And I am trying to access each key and value, and write them to a csv file. I believe using json.loads(json.dumps(file)) should work in normal json format, but because there is an array of objects, I can't seem to be able to access each individual one.
converter.py:


    import json
    import csv

    f = open("tweets_load.json",'r')
    y = json.loads(json.dumps(f.read(), separators=(',',':')))
    t = csv.writer(open("test.csv", "wb+"))

    # Write CSV Header, If you dont need that, remove this line
    t.writerow(["tweet", "user"])

    for x in y:
       t.writerow([x[0],x[0]])


grab_tweets.py:


    import tweepy
    import json

    def get_api(cfg):
      auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(cfg['consumer_key'], cfg['consumer_secret'])
      auth.set_access_token(cfg['access_token'], cfg['access_token_secret'])
      return tweepy.API(auth)

    def main():

      cfg = {
        "consumer_key"        : "xxx",
        "consumer_secret"     : "xxx",
        "access_token"        : "xxx",
        "access_token_secret" : "xxx"
        }
      api = get_api(cfg)
      json_ret = tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q="@realDonaldTrump",count="100").items(100)
      restapi =""
      for tweet in json_ret:
          rest = json.dumps({'tweet' : tweet.text,'user' :str(tweet.user.screen_name)},sort_keys=True,indent=4,separators=(',',': '))
          restapi = restapi+str(rest)+","
      f = open("tweets.json",'a')
      f.write(str(restapi))
      f.close()

    if __name__ == "__main__":
      main()


The output so far is looking like: 
tweet,user^M
{,{^M
"
","
"^M
 , ^M
 , ^M
 , ^M
 , ^M
"""",""""^M
t,t^M
w,w^M
e,e^M
e,e^M
t,t^M
"""",""""^M
:,:^M
 , ^M
"""",""""^M
R,R^M
T,T^M
 , ^M
@,@^M
r,r^M
e,e^M
a,a^M
l,l^M
D,D^M
o,o^M
n,n^M
a,a^M
l,l^M


What exactly am I doing wrong?