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Asked: 2026-05-11T13:27:44+00:00

I am implementing a Google data source using their Python library . I would

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I am implementing a Google data source using their Python library. I would like the response from the library to be able to be imported in another Python script using the simplejson library.

However, even their example doesn’t validate in JSONLint:

{cols:     [{id:'name',label:'Name',type:'string'},      {id:'salary',label:'Salary',type:'number'},      {id:'full_time',label:'Full Time Employee',type:'boolean'}], rows:     [{c:[{v:'Jim'},{v:800,f:'$800'},{v:false}]},      {c:[{v:'Bob'},{v:7000,f:'$7,000'},{v:true}]},      {c:[{v:'Mike'},{v:10000,f:'$10,000'},{v:true}]},      {c:[{v:'Alice'},{v:12500,f:'$12,500'},{v:true}]}]}

How do I tweak the simplejson ‘loads’ function to import the above JSON content? I think the main problem is that the object keys are not strings.

I would rather not write a regular expression to convert the keys to strings since I think such code would be annoying to maintain.

I am currently getting an ‘Expecting property name: line 1 column 1 (char 1)’ error when trying to import the above JSON into Python with simplejson.

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  1. It is considered to be invalid JSON without the string keys.

    {id:'name',label:'Name',type:'string'}

    must be:

    {'id':'name','label':'Name','type':'string'}

    According to the Google Data Source page, they’re returning invalid JSON. They don’t specifically say it, but all their examples lack quotes on the keys.

    Here is a fairly complete list of JSON processors for Python which goes into detail about what formats they support, and how well. Most don’t support non-string keys, but it appears that demjson will convert it.

    easy_install demjson
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