How can I create the empty json object?

Question

I have this code

json.loads(request.POST.get('mydata',dict())) 

But I get this error

No JSON object could be decoded 

I just want that if don't have mydata in POST, then I don't get that error.

Answer 1

Simply:

json.loads(request.POST.get('mydata', '{}')) 

Or:

data = json.loads(request.POST['mydata']) if 'mydata' in request.POST else {} 

Or:

if 'mydata' in request.POST:     data = json.loads(request.POST['mydata']) else:     data = {} # or data = None