How to use simplejson to decode following data?

Question

I grab some data from a URL, and search online to find out the data is in in Jason data format, but when I tried to use simplejson.loads(data), it will raise exception.

First time deal with jason data, any suggestion how to decode the data? Thanks

================= result = simplejson.loads(data, encoding="utf-8") File "F:\My Documents\My Dropbox\StockDataDownloader\simplejson_init_.py", line 401, in loads return cls(encoding=encoding, **kw).decode(s) File "F:\My Documents\My Dropbox\StockDataDownloader\simplejson\decoder.py", line 402, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "F:\My Documents\My Dropbox\StockDataDownloader\simplejson\decoder.py", line 420, in raw_decode raise JSONDecodeError("No JSON object could be decoded", s, idx) simplejson.decoder.JSONDecodeError: No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0)

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data = "{identifier:'ID', label:'As at Wed 4 Aug 2010 05:05 PM',items:[{ID:0,N:'2ndChance',NC:'528',R:'NONE',I:'NONE',M:'-',LT:0.335,C:0.015,VL:51.000,BV:20.000,B:0.330,S:0.345,SV:20.000,O:0.335,H:0.335,L:0.335,V:17085.000,SC:'4',PV:0.320,P:4.6875,P_:'X',V_:''},{ID:1,N:'8Telecom',NC:'E25',R:'NONE',I:'NONE',M:'-',LT:0.190,C:0.000,VL:965.000,BV:1305.000,B:0.185,S:0.190,SV:641.000,O:0.185,H:0.190,L:0.185,V:179525.000,SC:'2',PV:0.190,P:0.0,P_:'X',V_:''},{ID:2,N:'A-Sonic',NC:'A53',R:'NONE',I:'NONE',M:'-',LT:0.090,C:0.005,VL:1278.000,BV:17.000,B:0.090,S:0.095,SV:346.000,O:0.090,H:0.090,L:0.090,V:115020.000,SC:'A',PV:0.085,P:5.882352734375,P_:'X',V_:''},{ID:3,N:'AA Grp',NC:'5GZ',R:'NONE',I:'NONE',M:'t',LT:0.000,C:0.000,VL:0.000,BV:100.000,B:0.050,S:0.060,SV:50.000,O:0.000,H:0.000,L:0.000,V:0.000,SC:'2',PV:0.050,P:0.0,P_:'X',V_:''}]}"

Answer 1

You're using simplejson correctly, but the site that gave you that data isn't using JSON format properly. Look at json.org, which uses simple syntax diagrams to show what is JSON: in the object diagram, after { (unless the object is empty, in which case a } immediately follows), JSON always has a string -- and as you see in that diagram, this means something that starts with a double quote. So, the very start of the string:

{identifier:

tells you that's incorrect JSON -- no double quotes around the word identifier.

Working around this problem is not as easy as recognizing it's there, but I wanted to reassure you, at least, about your code. Sigh it does seem that broken websites, such a great tradition in old HTML days, are with us to stay no matter how modern the technology they break is...:-(