json string decoding encountering invalid escape

Question

I am using simplejson to decode the following json string.

Here is a demo written in Python:

from simplejson import loads

loads("""["\s"]""")

The decoder will throw:

JSONDecodeError: Invalid \escape

How to cope with this? The expected output is:

["\\s"]

Almost a duplicate of [python - json reading error json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Invalid \escape - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44687525/json-reading-error-json-decoder-jsondecodeerror-invalid-escape) — user202729, Feb 17 '21 at 11:55

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered May 07 '12 at 13:22

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"\s" is not a valid JSON escape string.

According to json.org, only the following escape are valid

answered May 07 '12 at 13:22

Demon

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