errors with json.loads

[john polo]

On 9/20/2017 5:56 PM, John Gordon wrote:
> In <mailman.101.1505945630.2730.python-list at python.org> john polo <jpolo at mail.usf.edu> writes:
>
>> JSONDecodeError: Expecting ':' delimiter: line 5 column 50 (char 161)
>> ?json.loads says that the method is for deserializing "s", with "s"
>> being a string, bytes, or bytearray.
>> In [24]: type(text)
>> Out[24]: str
>> So "text" seems to be a string. Why does json.loads return an error?
> Because, although text is the right type, it does not contain a
> valid json string.

Thank you for the reply, John. I am not familiar with how to check 
validity for json. I typed the example into notepad++ and saved as .json 
and didn't take any further steps after that. I'll look into that.


John