Python/Json:Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes

Question

I\'ve been trying to figure out a good way to load JSON objects in Python. I send this json data:

{\'http://example.org/about\': {\'http://purl.org/dc/terms/         


        

Answer 1

As the other answers explain well the error occurs because of invalid quote characters passed to the json module.

In my case I continued to get the ValueError even after replacing ' with " in my string. What I finally realized was that some quote-like unicode symbols had found their way into my string:

 “  ”  ‛  ’  ‘  `  ´  ″  ′ 

To clean all of these you can just pass your string through a regular expression:

import re

raw_string = '{“key”:“value”}'

parsed_string = re.sub(r"[“|”|‛|’|‘|`|´|″|′|']", '"', my_string)

json_object = json.loads(parsed_string)