errors with json.loads

[Bill]

john polo wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am using IPython 6.1.0 with Python 3.6.2 on a Windows 7 machine. I 
> am not a programmer. I am using a book called Python Data Analytics to 
> try to learn some of Python. I am at a section for reading and writing 
> JSON data. The example JSON file is:
>
>
> Listing 5-13.  books.json
> [{"writer": "Mark Ross",
>  "nationality": "USA",
>  "books": [
>          {"title": "XML Cookbook", "price": 23.56},
>          {"title": "Python Fundamentals", "price": 50.70},
>          {"title": "The NumPy library", "price": 12.30}
>              ]
> },
> {"writer": "Barbara Bracket",
>  "nationality": "UK",
>  "books": [
>          {"title": "Java Enterprise", "price": 28.60},
>          {"title": "HTML5", "price": 31.35},
>          {"title": "Python for Dummies", "price": 28.00}
>              ]
> }]
>
> and the example code for reading the file is:
>
> >>> file = open('books.json','r')
> >>> text = file.read()
> >>> text = json.loads(text)

Hmm... are you sure you want "text" on the left hand side.  I'm not sure 
whether this is okay or not.  It looks suspicious (but, like I said, I'm 
a Python newbie).