Expecting property name enclosed ... || Can't open json file

Question

When you try to open a json file, this error comes out

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\vlad0\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 227, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "c:\Users\vlad0\Desktop\bot\bot.py", line 577, in on_message
    info = json.load(open('servers/'+str(server)+'/reports/'+str(user["MaxRepID"])+'/info.json'))
  File "C:\py36\lib\json\__init__.py", line 299, in load
    parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
  File "C:\py36\lib\json\__init__.py", line 354, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\py36\lib\json\decoder.py", line 339, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\py36\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 18 (char 19)

Here is the code that opens it (The path is correct)

info = json.load(open('servers/'+str(server)+'/reports/'+str(user["MaxRepID"])+'/info.json'))

json file

{
  "Channel": "", /* ID */
  "Created": "", /* Date */
  "Author": "", /* who created */
  "Is_closed": "False",
  "Is_open": "False",
  "Is_deleted": "False"
}

As you can see, double brackets are not skipped, but what is the error?

Comments are not supported in JSON. You will need to remove the comments to get it to parse correctly. — Marcus, Mar 15 '19 at 15:17
If you want to parse it with the comments, see this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29959191/how-to-parse-json-file-with-c-style-comments — Marcus, Mar 15 '19 at 15:18

Matt Pitkin · Answer 1 · 2019-03-15T15:34:27.480

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I don't think C-style comments are allowed in a JSON file (at least the Python JSON parser doesn't allow them), so try removing them.

Edit: As suggested by @Marcus in the comments, this question has some options for parsing a JSON file that has comments, including using packages such as jsmin, jstyleson, and jsoncomment, which are all on PyPI and installable via pip.

edited Mar 15 '19 at 15:34

answered Mar 15 '19 at 15:19

Matt Pitkin

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Expecting property name enclosed ... || Can't open json file

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