errors with json.loads

[Ned Batchelder]

On 9/21/17 12:18 PM, john polo wrote:
> Bill,
> Thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure how to get Python 2 through the 
> cmd or IPython, so I went through ArcGIS, but it's mostly the same 
> result:
>
> >>> file = open('books.json','r')
> >>> text = file.read()
> >>> text = json.loads(text)

After the file.read() line, put this:  print(repr(text))  or 
print(ascii(text)) if you are on Python 3.  Show us that output. That 
will make clear what is wrong with the data.

--Ned.