from calendar import firstweekday import json with open('/home/atticus/proj/data/vg/data/region_descriptions_v1.json') as f1, open('/home/atticus/proj/data/vg/data/region_descriptions_v2.json') as f2: first_list = json.load(f1) second_list = json.load(f2) # for i, v in enumerate(first_list): first_list.extend(second_list) with open("/home/atticus/proj/data/vg/data/region_descriptions.json", 'w') as f: f.write(json.dumps(first_list))