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

Escape your newlines.

{"description":"Script to check testtbeat of TEST 1 server.", "script":"#!/bin/bash\\nset -e\\n\\nCOUNT=60   #number of 10 second timeouts in 10 minutes\\nSUM_SYNCS=0\\nSUM_SYNCS_BEHIND=0\\nHOSTNAME=$hostname      #dc1dbx1145.dc1.host.com\\n\\nwhile [[ $COUNT -ge \\"0\\" ]]; do\\n\\necho $HOSTNAME\\n\\n#send the request, put response in variable\\nDATA=$(wget -O - -q -t 1 http://$HOSTNAME:8080/heartbeat)\\n\\n#grep $DATA for syncs and syncs_behind\\nSYNCS=$(echo $DATA | grep -oE 'num_syncs: [0-9]+' | awk '{print $2}')\\nSYNCS_BEHIND=$(echo $DATA | grep -oE 'num_syncs_behind: [0-9]+' | awk '{print $2}')\\n\\necho $SYNCS\\necho $SYNCS_BEHIND\\n\\n#verify conditionals\\nif [[ $SYNCS -gt \\"8\\" && $SYNCS_BEHIND -eq \\"0\\" ]]; then exit 0; fi\\n\\n#decrement the counter\\nlet COUNT-=1\\n\\n#wait another 10 seconds\\nsleep 10\\n\\ndone\\n"}

Works for me.

Also, if you get an error like this in the future, a debugging technique you can use is to shorten the string to something that works and slowly add data until it doesn't.