On 2017-06-14, justin walters <walters.justi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I should also specify that the data you have received is malformed. > > JSON should always have an object as the top level structure, not an > array as in your data.
Where is that requirement stated? RFC7159 explicitly states that a "conforming JSON text" can be either an array or an object: 2. JSON Grammar A JSON text is a sequence of tokens. The set of tokens includes six structural characters, strings, numbers, and three literal names. A JSON text is a serialized value. Note that certain previous specifications of JSON constrained a JSON text to be an object or an array. Implementations that generate only objects or arrays where a JSON text is called for will be interoperable in the sense that all implementations will accept these as conforming JSON texts. The grammar specified by later in that section also allow a JSON text to contain nothing but a single simple value: string, number 'null' 'true' or 'false'. IOW, a file containing a single digit (0-9) is valid JSON. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
