How to deal with escape characters with JSON loads?
Question:
search = """
[{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}]
"""
print(loads(search)) # Returns Error
print(search.replace('"',"'")) # Turns all double quotes to single quotes, both the escaped and non escaped ones
Here’s my issues: I just don’t know how to load this sort of strings into JSON. Any tips? I tried a billion things. Tried repr(search), etc, nothing works.
EDIT: For those who wonder about the question: the issue is that the string has both double quotes that indicate a dictionary item or key (") and double quotes with a backslash before them that indicate part of a string ("). I was not able to load the string, correctly differentiating between the two.
In the answers, I got two solutions: using a rawstring, and dumping before loading.
The error:
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting ‘,’ delimiter: line 2 column 28 (char 28)
Answers:
Use double backslahes to escape quotes in the json:
search = """
[{"text":"Dolores Keane - \"Craigie Hills\" (1982)"}]
"""
or raw string literal:
search = r"""
[{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}]
"""
You forgot to escape the
search = r"""
[{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}]
"""
or let json.dumps produce the JSON in the first place:
search = json.dumps([dict(text='Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)'}])
You can use json.dumps to see how the original object should be encoded into JSON:
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps([{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}])
'[{"text": "Dolores Keane - \"Craigie Hills\" (1982)"}]'
and then confirm that json.loads can decode that same string:
>>> search = json.dumps([{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}])
>>> json.loads(search)
[{'text': 'Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)'}]
search = """
[{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}]
"""
print(loads(search)) # Returns Error
print(search.replace('"',"'")) # Turns all double quotes to single quotes, both the escaped and non escaped ones
Here’s my issues: I just don’t know how to load this sort of strings into JSON. Any tips? I tried a billion things. Tried repr(search), etc, nothing works.
EDIT: For those who wonder about the question: the issue is that the string has both double quotes that indicate a dictionary item or key (") and double quotes with a backslash before them that indicate part of a string ("). I was not able to load the string, correctly differentiating between the two.
In the answers, I got two solutions: using a rawstring, and dumping before loading.
The error:
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting ‘,’ delimiter: line 2 column 28 (char 28)
Use double backslahes to escape quotes in the json:
search = """
[{"text":"Dolores Keane - \"Craigie Hills\" (1982)"}]
"""
or raw string literal:
search = r"""
[{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}]
"""
You forgot to escape the so that you have literal backslashes in the JSON. Use a raw string literal
search = r"""
[{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}]
"""
or let json.dumps produce the JSON in the first place:
search = json.dumps([dict(text='Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)'}])
You can use json.dumps to see how the original object should be encoded into JSON:
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps([{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}])
'[{"text": "Dolores Keane - \"Craigie Hills\" (1982)"}]'
and then confirm that json.loads can decode that same string:
>>> search = json.dumps([{"text":"Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)"}])
>>> json.loads(search)
[{'text': 'Dolores Keane - "Craigie Hills" (1982)'}]