errors with json.loads

[Bill]

Stefan Ram wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:
>> After removing all the \xa0 bytes
>> and trying to decode it I get...

Apparenty an \xa0 byte corresponds to a "non-breaking space". What sort 
of white space characters are allowed in a json file ( tabs and 
newlines?)?  Just curious.

Bill

>    I did the same here, before I read your post.
>    I got the same results, but did not post them.
>
>    Someone has posted programs with \xA0 (NBSP IIRC)
>    at the start of lines of the soure here before, in:
>
> From: Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer at yahoo.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Subject: Setting property for current class from property in an different class...
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:24:40 -0700
> Message-ID: <mailman.144.1504751085.2733.python-list at python.org>
>
>    , and when I removed them, I was able to execute the
>    source from his post from 2017-Sep-06 without errors.
>
>    So I was feeling to lazy to bother this time.
>