Parsing comma separated JSON from a file

Question

I am reading a file that contains JSON separated by commas. So for example

{
  ...JSON
},
{
  ...JSON
},
{
  ...JSON
}

I know for sure they are

Answer 1

you can parse the data to dict by following this link. Parsing values from a JSON file using Python?

and convert the dict to list by the

.items()

function to the parsed dictionary.

Hope this one solves the problem. Good luck.

Answer 2

That's not valid JSON, it is missing the [...] brackets to make it a list.

You could add those manually:

with open(source_file) as source:
    json_source = source.read()
    data = json.loads('[{}]'.format(json_source))