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Importing json files on GUI using python. getting JSONDecodeError

Link to the .json file -> This is the link to the .json file.
I am making a Python based project and what I am trying to do here is to make use of a .json file. However when I tried to import it to use it with the GUI I got the following error.
Thank you in advance.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython-input-1-31816de2c4db>", line 1, in <module>
runfile('C:/Users/Akshita/pyex/Webmap/Gui.py', wdir='C:/Users/Akshita/pyex/Webmap')
File "C:\Users\Akshita\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 705, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)
File "C:\Users\Akshita\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 102, in execfile
exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)
File "C:/Users/Akshita/pyex/Webmap/Gui.py", line 12, in <module>
data=json.load(open(r"C:\Users\Akshita\pyex\Webmap\world.json"))
File "C:\Users\Akshita\Anaconda3\lib\json\__init__.py", line 299, in load
parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
File "C:\Users\Akshita\Anaconda3\lib\json\__init__.py", line 354, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Users\Akshita\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Users\Akshita\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
JSONDecodeError: Expecting value
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Mon May 21 10:15:01 2018
#author: Akshita
"""
from tkinter import *
import json
import difflib
from difflib import get_close_matches
data=json.load(open(r"C:\Users\Akshita\pyex\Webmap\world.json"))
window=Tk()
window.title("Webmap")
l1=Label(window,text="Name_of_place")
l1.grid(row=0,column=0)
val=StringVar()
e=Entry(window,textvariable=val)
e.grid(row=0,column=1)
be=Button(window,text="Enter",command=entry)
be.grid(row=0,column=2)
def entry():
w= e_val.get()
w=w.title()
if w in data:
t.insert("Data matched")
elif len(get_close_matches(w,data.keys(),cutoff=0.8))>0:
t.insert("Did you mean %s instead?" %get_close_matches(w,data.keys())[0])
t=Text(window,height=3,width=20)
t.grid(row=1,column=1)
by=Button(window,text="Yes",command=yeah)
by.grid(row=2,column=1)
def yeah():
t.insert("Processing")
bn=Button(window,text="No",command=nah)
bn.grid(row=2,column=2)
def nah():
t.insert("No such Data")
window.mainloop()

Looks like your JSON file is invalid - the sequence of brackets at the end is incorrect.
The end should look like this:
... <previous data> ... ,[2.96361,36.802216]]]}}]}
You can use online or IDE JSON checkers to validate your file.
update
Got your full json file.
It turns out that it has UTF-8 BOM header. Try to load() it this way:
import json
import codecs
data = json.load(codecs.open('tst.json', 'r', 'utf-8-sig'))
print(data)
Related SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13156715/2315573

Not able to import json from commandline for Python

I am currently tring to work with import a json input that is accepted by Python through a commandline argument and I am trying to save the different values to JSON to a list. I am having issues with my code given below and have attached both the code and the error I get below. Any help much appreciated.
import sys
import json
def lookup1 ():
jsonData = json.loads(sys.argv[1])
print jsonData
jsonList = [jsonData['proxy'],jsonData['OS']]
print jsonList
lookup1()
The error is given below:
$ python dynamicMapper.py '{'proxy':1,'OS':2}'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "dynamicMapper.py", line 9, in <module>
lookup1()
File "dynamicMapper.py", line 4, in lookup1
jsonData = json.loads(sys.argv[1])
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 1)
The commadline argunet that I give is python dynamicMapper.py '{'proxy':1,'OS':2}'
I am not able to find out what is causing this error and if my approach is right.

The script is working fine, you just need to call it the right way:
python dynamicMapper.py '{"proxy":1,"OS":2}'
{u'OS': 2, u'proxy': 1}
[1, 2]
In JSON the strings are quoted with double quotes instead of single quotes. You also need to quote the string passed to script so that shell understands it being a single argument.

Reading the Chrome Bookmarks (JSON) file in Python

I am trying to manipulate the Chrome Bookmarks file in Python, but have fallen at the first hurdle. I have this code:
import json
import os
input_filename = os.getenv("APPDATA") + "\..\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\history"
with open(input_filename) as data_file:
bookmark_data = json.load(data_file)
When I run this code I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/David/PycharmProjects/MyBookmarks/myBookmarks.py", line 17, in <module>
bookmark_data = json.load(data_file)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\__init__.py", line 290, in load
**kw)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\__init__.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Process finished with exit code 1
I am not that familiar with JSON, but given this is the chrome bookmarks file, I doubt it is a problem with the structure of the file, and I am stumped as to what to try next! Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Bookmarks is the name of the JSON file which you want to open
History is a database file which contains information on URL visits
and files downloaded

Specifying the encoding worked for me
with open(input_filename, "r", encoding='utf-8') as data_file:
bookmark_data = json.load(data_file)
Inspiration: https://pypi.org/project/chrome-bookmarks/

Trouble parsing JSON object in Python

I am trying to parse some text files containing JSON objects in Python using the json.load() method. It's working for one set of them, but for this one it will not:
{
"mapinfolist":{
"mapinfo":[
{"sku":"00028-0059","price":"38.35","percent":"50","basepercent":"50","exact":0,"match":0,"roundup":0}
,{"sku":"77826-7230","price":"4.18","percent":"60","basepercent":"60","exact":1,"match":0,"roundup":0}
,{"sku":"77827-1310","price":"2.36","percent":"60","basepercent":"60","exact":1,"match":0,"roundup":0}
,{"sku":"77827-2020","price":"2.36","percent":"60","basepercent":"60","exact":1,"match":0,"roundup":0}
,{"sku":"77827-3360","price":"2.36","percent":"60","basepercent":"60","exact":1,"match":0,"roundup":0}
,{"sku":"77827-4060","price":"2.36","percent":"60","basepercent":"60","exact":1,"match":0,"roundup":0}
,{"sku":"77827-4510","price":"2.36","percent":"60","basepercent":"60","exact":1,"match":0,"roundup":0}
,{"sku":"77827-7230","price":"2.36","percent":"60","basepercent":"60","exact":1,"match":0,"roundup":0}
],
"count":2
}
}
It is in a file called 'map.txt' - I open it using open('map.txt') and then call json.load(). When I run my test program (test.py), the following error trace is generated:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 28, in <module>
main()
File "test.py", line 23, in main
map_list = json.load(f1)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 268, in load
parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 318, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/json/decoder.py", line 343, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/json/decoder.py", line 361, in raw_decode
raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting value", s, err.value)) from None
ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
The JSON object is valid - when I put it into https://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ it is parsed and displayed correctly, so I am having trouble identifying what could be stopping it from working when I try to do it in Python. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: Here's my code.
import json
def main():
with open('map.txt') as f1:
map_list = json.load(f1)
Trying map_list = json.loads(f1.read()) also does not work and gives me an almost identical error trace.
EDIT - RESOLVED:
I just copied and pasted FROM map.txt into a new TextEdit file map2.txt and used the new file instead, and it works now. I copied directly from the old file and made no changes - the only difference is that it is a different file. I can't make heads or tails of why that would be - any ideas? I would like to understand what may have happened so I can avoid the problem in the future.

Does the following solution work for you?
import json
f = open("map.txt")
map = json.loads(f.read())
Python Docs

maybe try to read all the file to string and then use json.loads
def yourfunc():
file = open('map.txt')
json_string = file.read()
map = json.loads(json_string)

Reading scraped json file into python

I'm trying to read a JSON file I've scraped from a website into Python, with the eventual aim of turning it into a csv file for later statistical analysis.
An example of the file I want to read is:
globals.jsonpCallback('/feed/match/1-1-8vOt3JMq-1-2-yj0a9.dat', {"s":1,"d":{"bt":1,"sc":2,"st":{"notice":"finished","status-name":"Finished","result-name":"<p id=\"event-status\" class=\"result\"><span class=\"bold\" id=\"event-status-finished\">Final result 3:1<\/span><\/p>"},"oddsdata":{"back":{"E-1-2-0-0-0":{"handicapType":0,"handicapValue":"0.00","odds":{"49":{"0":1.32,"2":7,"1":4.8},"46":{"0":1.33,"2":7.3,"1":4.5},"9":{"0":1.25,"2":12,"1":5},"16":{"0":1.29,"2":11,"1":5},"164":{"0":1.31,"2":7.59,"1":4.5},"18":{"0":1.24,"2":11.6,"1":5.25},"23":{"0":1.27,"2":11.23,"1":4.75},"26":{"0":1.3,"2":10.5,"1":5},"5":{"0":1.23,"2":12,"1":5.75},"44":{"0":1.14,"2":4,"1":2.52},"1":{"0":1.3,"2":8.5,"1":4.4},"8":{"0":1.25,"2":9,"1":5},"3":{"0":1.25,"2":11,"1":4.5},"31":{"0":1.25,"2":9,"1":4.5},"60":{"0":1.29,"2":8.5,"1":4.5},"15":{"0":1.28,"2":10,"1":5.4},"34":{"0":1.25,"2":10,"1":5},"111":{"0":1.25,"2":10,"1":4.84},"68":{"0":1.26,"2":9.75,"1":4.84},"105":{"0":1.28,"2":8,"1":4.5},"71":{"0":1.3,"2":9,"1":5},"28":{"0":1.25,"2":12,"1":5.5},"33":{"0":1.3,"2":9.25,"1":4.84},"14":{"0":1.22,"2":10.93,"1":5.05},"21":{"0":1.33,"2":7.5,"1":4.33},"30":{"0":1.22,"2":8.5,"1":5.5},"24":{"0":1.3,"2":9,"1":4.95},"32":{"0":1.25,"2":9.5,"1":4.9},"2":{"0":1.25,"2":10,"1":5},"90":{"0":1.28,"2":10.25,"1":4.8},"56":{"0":1.3,"2":9.8,"1":4.8},"41":{"0":1.3,"2":8.9,"1":4.5},"128":{"0":1.27,"2":12,"1":5.5},"75":{"0":1.2,"2":10.5,"1":5.2}},"mixedParameterId":0,"OutcomeID":{"0":"s3nfxv464x0x1o7d5","2":"s3nfxv464x0x1o7d6","1":"s3nfxv498x0x0"},"opening_odds":{"49":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"46":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"9":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"16":{"0":1.22,"2":null,"1":null},"164":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"18":{"0":1.31,"2":9.8,"1":5.65},"23":{"0":null,"2":4.75,"1":11.23},"26":{"0":1.25,"2":10,"1":5.25},"5":{"0":1.22,"2":12.5,"1":5.5},"44":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"1":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"8":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"3":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"31":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"60":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"15":{"0":1.25,"2":null,"1":4.5},"34":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"111":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"68":{"0":1.27,"2":9.15,"1":4.65},"105":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"71":{"0":1.29,"2":8,"1":4.5},"28":{"0":1.22,"2":10,"1":5},"33":{"0":1.4,"2":6.65,"1":4.25},"14":{"0":1.32,"2":7.8,"1":4.42},"21":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"30":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"24":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"32":{"0":1.3,"2":8.5,"1":4.75},"2":{"0":1.35,"2":7.75,"1":4.3},"90":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"56":{"0":null,"2":11,"1":4.59},"41":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"128":{"0":1.25,"2":null,"1":5},"75":{"0":1.25,"2":8.9,"1":4.8}},"opening_change_time":{"49":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"46":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"9":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"16":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"164":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"18":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"23":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"26":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"5":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"44":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"1":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"8":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"3":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"31":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"60":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"15":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"34":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"111":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"68":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"105":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"71":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"28":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"33":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"14":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"21":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"30":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"24":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"32":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"2":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"90":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"56":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"41":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"128":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false},"75":{"0":false,"2":false,"1":false}},"opening_volume":{"49":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"46":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"9":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"16":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"164":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"18":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"23":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"26":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"5":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"44":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"1":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"8":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"3":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"31":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"60":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"15":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"34":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"111":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"68":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"105":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"71":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"28":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"33":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"14":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"21":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"30":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"24":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"32":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"2":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"90":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"56":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"41":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"128":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null},"75":{"0":null,"2":null,"1":null}},"volume":[],"change_time":{"49":{"0":1192344925,"2":1192344925,"1":1192344925},"46":{"0":1192356640,"2":1192356640,"1":1192356640},"9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My current code looks like this (previous copy and paste job was inexplicably wrong):
import json
from pprint import pprint
json_data = open('/home/readejj/Documents/data/1-1-jFEwehyT-1-2-yjaf9.dat').read()
json_stuff = json_data[json_data.find('{'):json_data.rfind('}')+1]
json_stuff = json_stuff.replace("\"","'")
print "json_stuff",type(json_stuff), len(json_stuff), json_stuff[1:2000]
d = json.loads(json_stuff)
pprint(d)
This is adopted from: Reading JSON from a file?
The error I'm getting is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "read_json.py", line 16, in <module>
d = json.loads(json_stuff)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 326, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 1 (char 1)
If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated - my apologies if it's a very basic error, I am not an experienced programmer.
UPDATE: It's been pointed out my replace line is bad - if removed, I get a different error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "read_oddsportal_json.py", line 19, in <module>
d = json.loads(json_stuff)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 326, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Expecting , delimiter: line 1 column 99 (char 99)

This line:
json_stuff = json_stuff.replace("\"","'")
is bad. Delete it.
The JSON spec requires that strings are double-quote (") delimited, not single-quote.