problems decoding json objects

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Tamer Higazi <th982a at googlemail.com> writes:
> > How do I solve this problem ?!
>
> Fix the document. Where did it come from?

If you're the one typing raw JSON into your program: Fix that. Don't
type raw JSON.

JSON is an object serialisation format; it's foolish to type it
yourself. You should only be generating it from a known-debugged JSON
library, or reading it as input from some other generator.

If you want to define an object in a Python literal, type Python code.


Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

> This stuff isn't meant to be typed by humans. Instead computers are
> supposed to barf it out and munch on it. As Ben indicated, putting it
> in a string is pointless.

It didn't even occur to me that the programmer would have typed this in
manually. Good catch, Skip.

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Ben Finney