Read json file from python

Question

I am trying to read a json file from python script using the json module. After some googling I found the following code:

with open(json_folder+json) as json_file:
        json_data = json.loads(json_file)
        print(json_data)

Where json_folder+json are the path and the name of the json file. I am getting the following error:

str object has no attribute loads. 

Answer 1

The code is using json as a variable name. It will shadow the module reference you imported. Use different name for the variable.

Beside that, the code is passing file object, while json.loads accept a string.

Pass a file content:

json_data = json.loads(json_file.read())

or use json.load which accepts file-like object.

json_data = json.load(json_file)