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

why parsing when you can use types as follows:

def is_json(myjson):
    return type(myjson) == type({})

def is_json_arr(myjson):
    return type(myjson) == type([{}])