Python Regex: find all lines that start with '{' and end with '}'

Question

I am receiving data over a socket, a bunch of JSON strings. However, I receive a set amount of bytes, so sometimes the last of my JSON strings is cut-off. I will typically g

Answer 1

Extracting lines that start and end with a specific character can be done without any regex, use str.startswith and str.endswith methods when iterating through the lines in a file:

results = []
with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        if line.startswith('{') and line.rstrip('\n').endswith('}'):
            results.append(line.rstrip('\n'))

Note the .rstrip('\n') is used before .endswith to make sure the final newline does not interfere with the } check at the end of the string.