import argparse import json import os if __name__ == '__main__': parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("-f", type=str, help="path to file") params = parser.parse_args() with open(params.f, "r") as f: content = f.read() row = content.replace(" ", "", -1).replace("\n", "") os.sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(row))