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

As to me, my json file is very large, when use common json in python it gets the above error.

After install simplejson by sudo pip install simplejson.

And then I solved it.

import json
import simplejson


def test_parse_json():
    f_path = '/home/hello/_data.json'
    with open(f_path) as f:
        # j_data = json.load(f)      # ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
        j_data = simplejson.load(f)  # right
    lst_img = j_data['images']['image']
    print lst_img[0]


if __name__ == '__main__':
    test_parse_json()