errors with json.loads
John Gordon
gordon at panix.com
Wed Sep 20 18:56:02 EDT 2017
In <mailman.101.1505945630.2730.python-list at python.org> john polo <jpolo at mail.usf.edu> 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 a string. Why does json.loads return an error?
Because, although text is the right type, it does not contain a
valid json string.
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