How to parse JSON passed on the command line?

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.2117.1383796399.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I'm writing a little helper script in Python that will access a JSON
> formatted argument from the shell when it's called. The parameter will
> look like this:
> 
> {"url":"http://www.google.com"}
> 
> So, if my program is called "getargfromcli.py" the call will look like this:
> 
> getargfromcli.py {"url":"http://www.google.com"}
> 
> In the case above, I assume my JSON string will be argv[1]. In fact,
> when I do
> 
> print sys.argv[1]
> 
> It works as expected and prints out the JSON string as expected like
> this: {url:http://www.google.com}

Which is not valid JSON.  You lost the quotes.  I suspect you want to