**json objects** are surrounded by curly braces **{ }**. They are written in key and value pairs. 

**json.loads()** takes in a string and returns a json object.

**json.dumps()** takes in a json object and returns a string.

As you can see, `json.dumps()` and `json.loads()` are opposite of one another. 




## Example json.loads()
In this example, a string is converted into a `dict` and  the key `age` is accessed in that `json` object:

import json
x =  '{ "name":"John", "age":30, "city":"New York"}'
y = json.loads(x)
print(y["age"])

## Example json.dumps()

In this example, a `json` object is passed in the `json.dumps()` function, and its data is extracted and returned in the form of a string:

import json
a = {'lalalala': 3}
myString = json.dumps(a)
print (myString)


What is the difference between json.loads() and json.dumps()?

Example json.loads()

Example json.dumps()