Invalid control character with Python json.loads

Question

Below is my string that is getting printed out with the below code -

jsonString = data.decode(\"utf-8\")

print jsonString

And below is the

Answer 1

There is no error in your json text.

You can get the error if you copy-paste the string into your Python source code as a string literal. In that case \n is interpreted as a single character (newline). You can fix it by using raw-string literals instead (r'', Use triple-quotes r'''..''' to avoid escaping "' quotes inside the string literal).