Converting string file into json format file

Question

Ok , let say that I have a string text file named "string.txt" , and I want to convert it into a json text file. What I suppose to do? I have tried to use 'json.loads()' ,but it never works with me! here is a part from my text file :

rdian","id":"161428670566653"},{"category":"Retail and consumer merchandise","category_list":[{"id":"187937741228885","name":"Electronics Store"},{"id":"191969860827280","name":"Photographic Services & Equipment"}

any help please? edit: I have use this code:

import json

f = open("string.txt", 'w')
f1 = open("stringJson.txt", 'r')


f.write(json.dumps(json.loads(f), indent=1))


f.close()

the error is like this:

obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) TypeError: expected string or buffer

Answer 1

import json
with open("string.txt", "rb") as fin:
    content = json.load(fin)
with open("stringJson.txt", "wb") as fout:
    json.dump(content, fout, indent=1)

See http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html#basic-usage