Reading JSON from a file?

Question

I am getting a bit of headache just because a simple looking, easy statement is throwing some errors in my face.

I have a json file called strings.json like this:

Answer 1

In python 3, we can use below method.

Read from file and convert to JSON

import json
from pprint import pprint

# Considering "json_list.json" is a json file

with open('json_list.json') as fd:
     json_data = json.load(fd)
     pprint(json_data)

with statement automatically close the opened file descriptor.

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String to JSON

import json
from pprint import pprint

json_data = json.loads('{"name" : "myName", "age":24}')
pprint(json_data)

Answer 2

To add on this, today you are able to use pandas to import json:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_json.html You may want to do a careful use of the orient parameter.

Answer 3

The problem is using with statement:

with open('strings.json') as json_data:
    d = json.load(json_data)
    pprint(d)

The file is going to be implicitly closed already. There is no need to call json_data.close() again.

Answer 4

This works for me.

json.load() accepts file object, parses the JSON data, populates a Python dictionary with the data and returns it back to you.

Suppose JSON file is like this:

{
   "emp_details":[
                 {
                "emp_name":"John",
                "emp_emailId":"john@gmail.com"  
                  },
                {
                 "emp_name":"Aditya",
                 "emp_emailId":"adityatest@yahoo.com"
                }
              ] 
}

import json 

# Opening JSON file 
f = open('data.json',) 

# returns JSON object as  
# a dictionary 
data = json.load(f) 

# Iterating through the json 
# list 
for i in data['emp_details']: 
    print(i) 

# Closing file 
f.close()

#Output:
{'emp_name':'John','emp_emailId':'john@gmail.com'}
{'emp_name':'Aditya','emp_emailId':'adityatest@yahoo.com'}

Answer 5

You can use pandas library to read the JSON file.

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_json('strings.json',lines=True)
print(df)

Answer 6

The json.load() method (without "s" in "load") can read a file directly:

import json

with open('strings.json') as f:
    d = json.load(f)
    print(d)

You were using the json.loads() method, which is used for string arguments only.

Edit: The new message is a totally different problem. In that case, there is some invalid json in that file. For that, I would recommend running the file through a json validator.

There are also solutions for fixing json like for example How do I automatically fix an invalid JSON string?.