Displaying better error message than “No JSON object could be decoded”

Question

Python code to load data from some long complicated JSON file:

with open(filename, \"r\") as f:
  data = json.loads(f.read())

(note: the be

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and it was due to singlequotes. The JSON standard(http://json.org) talks only about using double quotes so it must be that the python json library supports only double quotes.