Reading JSON from a file?
The json.load() method (without "s" in "load") can read a file directly:
import jsonwith 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?.
Here is a copy of code which works fine for me
import jsonwith open("test.json") as json_file: json_data = json.load(json_file) print(json_data)with the data
{ "a": [1,3,"asdf",true], "b": { "Hello": "world" }}you may want to wrap your json.load line with a try catch because invalid JSON will cause a stacktrace error message.