I have a JSON Lines file that I would like to read as a string in Python. The file contains multiple JSON objects in this format:
{"Data1": "Value1"} {"Data2": "Value2"} {"Data3": "Value3"}
I tried the following code in Python but it returned an error. I was able to load the file as a list of dictionaries using lines = []
but apprently it doesn’t work for a string. How can I read the whole file as a string?
import json lines = '' with open('file.json', 'r') as f: for line in f: lines.append(json.loads(line))
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Answer
The best way to read a JSON Lines document as a string would be to use the read()
function as follow:
with open("file.json", "r") as file: data_str = file.read()