# json

This section describes the thin wrapper api functions for processing JSON data. 

[functions](/docs/json/functions.md)

The thin api functions used for the maci library that enable JSON functionality, use and wrap the native json library shipped with the python standard library for its underlying functionality.

For more information on the json library, visit: <https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html>


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