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

Why don't you load the file as string, replace all }{ with },{ and surround the whole thing with []? Something like:

re.sub('\}\s*?\{', '\}, \{', string_read_from_a_file)

Or simple string replace if you are sure you always have }{ without whitespaces in between.

In case you expect }{ to occur in strings as well, you could also split on }{ and evaluate each fragment with json.load, in case you get an error, the fragment wasn't complete and you have to add the next to the first one and so forth.