errors with json.loads

[Bill]

Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> On 9/20/17 8:22 PM, Bill wrote:
>> 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. 
>
> These things can be looked up.  From RFC 7159 
> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159):
>

Thank you.  So what is most likely the root cause of the original 
poster's problem (assuming he typed out the text with a text editor)?