code: def write_as_json(blob, dest, indent=0, sort_keys=True):
      
      opened_out = False
      if is_str_type(dest):
          out = codecs.open(dest, mode='w', encoding='utf-8')
          opened_out = True
      else:
          out = dest
      try:
          json.dump(blob, out, indent=indent, sort_keys=sort_keys)
          out.write('\n')
      finally:
          out.flush()
          if opened_out:
              out.close()
docs: Writes `blob` as JSON to the filepath `dest` or the filestream `dest` (if it isn't a string)
      uses utf-8 encoding if the filepath is given (does not change the encoding if dest is already open).