diff --git a/.changeset/fresh-ads-approve.md b/.changeset/fresh-ads-approve.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..921797bcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/fresh-ads-approve.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@gitbook/react-openapi": patch
+---
+
+Fix Python code example for JSON payload
diff --git a/packages/react-openapi/src/code-samples.test.ts b/packages/react-openapi/src/code-samples.test.ts
index adcb3922a..363baf552 100644
--- a/packages/react-openapi/src/code-samples.test.ts
+++ b/packages/react-openapi/src/code-samples.test.ts
@@ -413,13 +413,15 @@ describe('python code sample generator', () => {
             },
             body: {
                 key: 'value',
+                truethy: true,
+                falsey: false,
             },
         };
 
         const output = generator?.generate(input);
 
         expect(output).toBe(
-            'import requests\n\nresponse = requests.get(\n    "https://example.com/path",\n    headers={"Content-Type":"application/json"},\n    data={"key":"value"}\n)\n\ndata = response.json()'
+            'import requests\n\nresponse = requests.get(\n    "https://example.com/path",\n    headers={"Content-Type":"application/json"},\n    data=json.dumps({"key":"value","truethy":True,"falsey":False})\n)\n\ndata = response.json()'
         );
     });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-openapi/src/code-samples.ts b/packages/react-openapi/src/code-samples.ts
index 7bd45e614..fe44da11d 100644
--- a/packages/react-openapi/src/code-samples.ts
+++ b/packages/react-openapi/src/code-samples.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import {
     isFormData,
     isFormUrlEncoded,
     isGraphQL,
+    isJSON,
     isPDF,
     isPlainObject,
     isText,
@@ -173,11 +174,14 @@ ${headerString}${bodyString}`;
                 code += indent(`headers=${stringifyOpenAPI(headers)},\n`, 4);
             }
 
+            const contentType = headers?.['Content-Type'];
             if (body) {
                 if (body === 'files') {
                     code += indent(`files=${body}\n`, 4);
+                } else if (isJSON(contentType)) {
+                    code += indent(`data=json.dumps(${body})\n`, 4);
                 } else {
-                    code += indent(`data=${stringifyOpenAPI(body)}\n`, 4);
+                    code += indent(`data=${body}\n`, 4);
                 }
             }
 
@@ -343,18 +347,27 @@ const BodyGenerators = {
             }
             code += '}\n\n';
             body = 'files';
-        }
-
-        if (isPDF(contentType)) {
+        } else if (isPDF(contentType)) {
             code += 'files = {\n';
             code += `${indent(`"file": "${body}",`, 4)}\n`;
             code += '}\n\n';
             body = 'files';
-        }
-
-        if (isXML(contentType)) {
+        } else if (isXML(contentType)) {
             // Convert JSON to XML if needed
-            body = convertBodyToXML(body);
+            body = JSON.stringify(convertBodyToXML(body));
+        } else {
+            body = stringifyOpenAPI(body, (_key, value) => {
+                switch (value) {
+                    case true:
+                        return '$$__TRUE__$$';
+                    case false:
+                        return '$$__FALSE__$$';
+                    default:
+                        return value;
+                }
+            })
+                .replaceAll('"$$__TRUE__$$"', 'True')
+                .replaceAll('"$$__FALSE__$$"', 'False');
         }
 
         return { body, code, headers };
diff --git a/packages/react-openapi/src/stringifyOpenAPI.ts b/packages/react-openapi/src/stringifyOpenAPI.ts
index c0d070c2d..3fb2853de 100644
--- a/packages/react-openapi/src/stringifyOpenAPI.ts
+++ b/packages/react-openapi/src/stringifyOpenAPI.ts
@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
 /**
  * Stringify an OpenAPI object. Same API as JSON.stringify.
  */
-export function stringifyOpenAPI(body: unknown, _?: null, indent?: number): string {
+export function stringifyOpenAPI(
+    value: any,
+    replacer?: ((this: any, key: string, value: any) => any) | null,
+    space?: string | number
+): string {
     return JSON.stringify(
-        body,
+        value,
         (key, value) => {
             // Ignore internal keys
             if (key.startsWith('x-gitbook-')) {
                 return undefined;
             }
 
+            if (replacer) {
+                return replacer(key, value);
+            }
+
             return value;
         },
-        indent
+        space
     );
 }