Python json.loads ValueError, expecting delimiter

Question

I am extracting a postgres table as json. The output file contains lines like:

{\"data\": {\"test\": 1, \"hello\": \"I have \\\" !\"}, \"id\": 4}
         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

json.loads(r'{"data": {"test": 1, "hello": "I have \" !"}, "id": 4}')

If you have that string inside a variable, then just:

json.loads(data.replace("\\", r"\\"))

Hope it helps!