Question

I have a list of JSON files saved to disk that I would like to read. Sometimes the JSON files span more than one line and so, I think that a simple list comprehension that loops over open(file,'rb').readlines() will fail.

The files are surrounded in brackets and so passing them to json.load or json.loads won’t work.

An example file would be:

[{key:value,key2:value2},{morekeys:morevalues},{evenmorekeys,evenmorevalues}]

What is the best/ most Pythonic way to read a saved list of JSON entries when the entries span more than one line?

Answer 1

Your example is valid json. [] define json arrays. What you have is an array of objects:

with open("myFile.json") as f:
    objects = json.load(f)