Retrieving JSON objects from a text file (using Python)

Question

I have thousands of text files containing multiple JSON objects, but unfortunately there is no delimiter between the objects. Objects are stored as dictionaries and some of

Answer 1

Sebastian Blask has the right idea, but there's no reason to use regexes for such a simple change.

objs = json.loads("[%s]"%(open('your_file.name').read().replace('}{', '},{')))

Or, more legibly

raw_objs_string = open('your_file.name').read() #read in raw data
raw_objs_string = raw_objs_string.replace('}{', '},{') #insert a comma between each object
objs_string = '[%s]'%(raw_objs_string) #wrap in a list, to make valid json
objs = json.loads(objs_string) #parse json