Verify if a String is JSON in python?

Question

I have a string in Python, I want to know if it is valid JSON.

json.loads(mystring) will raise an error if the string is not JSON but I don\'t want to

Answer 1

The correct answer is: stop NOT wanting to catch the ValueError.

Example Python script returns a boolean if a string is valid json:

import json

def is_json(myjson):
    try:
        json_object = json.loads(myjson)
    except ValueError as e:
        return False
    return True

print(is_json('{}'))              # prints True
print(is_json('{asdf}'))          # prints False
print(is_json('{"age":100}'))     # prints True
print(is_json('{'age':100 }'))    # prints False
print(is_json('{"age":100 }'))    # prints True