errors with json.loads

[john polo]

On 9/20/2017 6:40 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:13:41 -0500, john polo <jpolo at mail.usf.edu>
> declaimed the following:
>
>
>> and the example code for reading the file is:
>>
>>>>> file = open('books.json','r')
> 	What encoding is the file? I did a cut&paste from your post into a
> file, and the contents (Python 2.7) failed with
Dennis,
I typed it into notepad++ and saved as .json. On the bottom of the 
notepad++ window it says:
Windows (CR LF) UTF-8

I think that answers your question?

Thanks,
John

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