On 9/21/2017 10:11 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
I can only assume that the actual data being read is different than
the data they put into the message here.
--Ned.
There was a typo in the file that I had made and saved; an extra comma
before one of the ":". Apologies to the list for not catchi
On 9/21/2017 4:24 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
It looks to me like the root cause of the problem was that they copied
the code from a web page, and the web page contained invalid JSON.
Thank you, Thomas.
John
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On 9/20/2017 6:40 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:13:41 -0500, john polo
declaimed the following:
and the example code for reading the file is:
file = open('books.json','r')
What encoding is the file? I did a cut&paste from your post into a
file, and the content
On 9/20/2017 5:58 PM, Bill wrote:
Interesting problem, John.
I have probably even less experience with json than you do, so I'm
taking this as an opportunity to learn with you.
Suggestions:
1. Try your example with Python 2 rather than Python 3.
Bill,
Thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure how
On 9/20/2017 5:56 PM, John Gordon wrote:
In john polo
writes:
JSONDecodeError: Expecting ':' delimiter: line 5 column 50 (char 161)
?json.loads says that the method is for deserializing "s", with "s"
being a string, bytes, or bytearray.
In [24]: type(text)
Out[24]: str
So "text" seems to be
