some true pretty printing of json data. From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9105031/how-to-beautify-json-in-python-or-through-command-line
def pretty_json(s):
import sys
import json
from pygments import highlight, lexers, formatters
formatted_json = json.dumps(json.loads(s), indent=4)
colorful_json = highlight(formatted_json, lexers.JsonLexer(), formatters.TerminalFormatter())
print(colorful_json)
import sys
import json
from pygments import highlight, lexers, formatters
formatted_json = json.dumps(json.loads(sys.argv[1]), indent=4)
colorful_json = highlight(unicode(formatted_json, 'UTF-8'), lexers.JsonLexer(), formatters.TerminalFormatter())
print(colorful_json)