How to send a json object pretty printed as an email python

I can't say for certain, but it would seem like your email-sending code is defaulting to sending an "HTML" email, and in HTML consecutive spaces collapse into one, that way HTML code like:

<p>    This is a paragraph, but it's long so    I'll break to a new line, and indented    so I know it's within the `p` tag, etc.</p>

Looks like "This is a paragraph, but it's long so I'll break to a new line, and indented so I know it's within the p tag, etc." to the user.

So, I'd say your two options are:

1. Change the email sending code to send the Content-type header as text/plain, or

2. Replace all your spaces with the   (non-breaking space) character and newlines with <br> (breaks), for example:

   email_body = json.dumps(    health, indent=4, sort_keys=True).replace(' ', ' ').replace('\n', '<br>')

>>> import json>>> s = json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4)>>> print s{    "4": 5,     "6": 7}

mine works finePython 2.7.3 (default, Jan 17 2015, 17:10:37) [GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)] on linux2

maybe it's version related, post your version and output