How to dump (or encode, serialize) a Python object into a JSON string using json.dumps()?

The json.dumps() function allows you to dump (or encode, serialize) Python objects into JSON strings:

json.dumps(obj, *, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, 
   allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None, default=None, 
   sort_keys=False, **kw)

The json.dumps() functions uses the following default encoding table:

Python Type           JSON Type
-----------           ---------
dict	              object
list                  array
tuple	              array
str	                  string
int                   number
float                 number
int-                  number
float-derived Enums	  number
True	              true
False	              false
None	              null

Some examples on using the json.dumps() function:

>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(['foo', {'bar': ('baz', None, 1.0, 2)}])
'["foo", {"bar": ["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]'
>>> print(json.dumps("\"foo\bar"))
"\"foo\bar"
>>> print(json.dumps('\u1234'))
"\u1234"
>>> print(json.dumps('\\'))
"\\"
>>> print(json.dumps({"c": 0, "b": 0, "a": 0}, sort_keys=True))
{"a": 0, "b": 0, "c": 0}

If you try to dump an object that is not supported with json.dumps(), you will get the "Object of type '...' is not JSON serializable" error:

>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(json)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:...\Python36-32\lib\json\__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
    return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
  ...
TypeError: Object of type 'module' is not JSON serializable

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