Kushal Das added the comment: It is not a valid JSON. You may want to validate it against http://jsonlint.com/
What you have inside the string (single quotes) is the JSON representation but not the string representation which json.loads is supposed to parse. ---------- nosy: +kushaldas _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21182> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com