i try to construct JSON with string that contains "\n" in it like this :
ver_str= 'Package ID: version_1234\nBuild\nnumber: 154\nBuilt\n'
proj_ver_str = 'Version_123'
comb = '{"r_content": {0}, "s_version": {1}}'.format(ver_str,proj_ver_str)
json_content = json.loads()
d =json.dumps(json_content )
getting this error:
exec(compile(contents+"\n", file, 'exec'), glob, loc)
File "C:/Dev/python/new_tester/simple_main.py", line 18, in <module>
comb = '{"r_content": {0}, "s_version": {1}}'.format(ver_str,proj_ver_str)
KeyError: '"r_content"'
The error arises not because of newlines in your values, but because of { and } characters in your format string other than the placeholders {0} and {1}. If you want to have an actual { or a } character in your string, double them.
Try replacing the line
comb = '{"r_content": {0}, "s_version": {1}}'.format(ver_str,proj_ver_str)
with
comb = '{{"r_content": {0}, "s_version": {1}}}'.format(ver_str,proj_ver_str)
However, this will give you a different error on the next line, loads() missing 1 required positional argument: 's'. This is because you presumably forgot to pass comb to json.loads().
Replacing json.loads() with json.loads(comb) gives you another error: json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 15 (char 14). This tells you that you've given json.loads malformed JSON to parse. If you print out the value of comb, you see the following:
{"r_content": Package ID: version_1234
Build
number: 154
Built
, "s_version": Version_123}
This isn't valid JSON, because the string values aren't surrounded by quotes. So a JSON parsing error is to be expected.
At this point, let's take a look at what your code is doing and what you seem to want it to do. It seems you want to construct a JSON string from your data, but your code puts together a JSON string from your data, parses it to a dict and then formats it back as a JSON string.
If you want to create a JSON string from your data, it's far simpler to create a dict with your values and use json.dumps on that:
d = json.dumps({"r_content": ver_str, "s_version": proj_ver_str})
I am currently trying to write 2 pieces of user inputted code to a .json file without clearing the existing data. I believe it is a problem with the logins.append as it says there is no such thing. What would i have to use?
I have been searching around trying to find different suffixes to the logins.
def i():
path_to_json = "./logins.json"
with open("logins.json", "r") as content:
logins = json.load(content)
with open('logins.json', 'a') as outfile:
username = str(input('New Username: '))
password = str(input('New Password: '))
logins.append({username:password})
I am getting the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module>
i()
File "N:\NEA Computing\NEA code.py", line 188, in i
logins.append({username: password})
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'append'
I am expecting it to add data to the .json file without deleting the other data however i am getting an error and nothing is being written to the .json file.
Try to open the file with 'w' option
def i():
path_to_json = "./logins.json"
with open("logins.json", "w") as content:
logins = json.load(content)
with open('logins.json', 'a') as outfile:
username = str(input('New Username: '))
password = str(input('New Password: '))
logins.append({username:password})
Maybe this is a misunderstanding of the question, but what is happening, as far as I can see, is that you use json.load, which seems to load an object literal like {key1: value1, key2: value2,...} and not an array literal like [value1, value2, ...]. Python converts the first one into a python dict, and a dictionary has no append function, only an array / a list has. You get your error and execution halts. When you have the content of logins.json as object {...}, it doesn't work for me but as array/list [...] it works
I'm trying to read tables into R from HTML pages that are mostly encoded in UTF-8 (and declare <meta charset="utf-8">) but have some strings in some other encodings (I think Windows-1252 or ISO 8859-1). Here's an example. I want everything decoded properly into an R data frame. XML::readHTMLTable takes an encoding argument but doesn't seem to allow one to try multiple encodings.
So, in R, how can I try several encodings for each line of the input file? In Python 3, I'd do something like:
with open('file', 'rb') as o:
for line in o:
try:
line = line.decode('UTF-8')
except UnicodeDecodeError:
line = line.decode('Windows-1252')
There do seem to be R library functions for guessing character encodings, like stringi::stri_enc_detect, but when possible, it's probably better to use the simpler determinstic method of trying a fixed set of encodings in order. It looks like the best way to do this is to take advantage of the fact that when iconv fails to convert a string, it returns NA.
linewise.decode = function(path)
sapply(readLines(path), USE.NAMES = F, function(line) {
if (validUTF8(line))
return(line)
l2 = iconv(line, "Windows-1252", "UTF-8")
if (!is.na(l2))
return(l2)
l2 = iconv(line, "Shift-JIS", "UTF-8")
if (!is.na(l2))
return(l2)
stop("Encoding not detected")
})
If you create a test file with
$ python3 -c 'with open("inptest", "wb") as o: o.write(b"This line is ASCII\n" + "This line is UTF-8: I like π\n".encode("UTF-8") + "This line is Windows-1252: Müller\n".encode("Windows-1252") + "This line is Shift-JIS: ハローワールド\n".encode("Shift-JIS"))'
then linewise.decode("inptest") indeed returns
[1] "This line is ASCII"
[2] "This line is UTF-8: I like π"
[3] "This line is Windows-1252: Müller"
[4] "This line is Shift-JIS: ハローワールド"
To use linewise.decode with XML::readHTMLTable, just say something like XML::readHTMLTable(linewise.decode("http://example.com")).
I've been given a load of JSON files which I'm trying to load into python 3.5
I've already had to do some clean up work, removing double backslashes and extra quotations, however I've run into an issue I don't know how to solve.
I'm running the following code:
with open(filepath,'r') as json_file:
reader = json_file.readlines()
for row in reader:
row = row.replace('\\', '')
row = row.replace('"{', '{')
row = row.replace('}"', '}')
response = json.loads(row)
for i in response:
responselist.append(i['ActionName'])
However it's throwing up the error:
JSONDecodeError: Expecting ',' delimiter: line 1 column 388833 (char 388832)
The part of the JSON that's causing the issue is the status text entry below:
"StatusId":8,
"StatusIdString":"UnknownServiceError",
"StatusText":"u003cCompany docTypeu003d"Mobile.Tile" statusIdu003d"421" statusTextu003d"Start time of 11/30/2015 12:15:00 PM is more than 5 minutes in the past relative to the current time of 12/1/2015 12:27:01 AM." copyrightu003d"Copyright Company Inc." versionNumberu003d"7.3" createdDateu003d"2015-12-01T00:27:01Z" responseIdu003d"e74710c0-dc7c-42db-b608-bf905d95d153" /u003e",
"ActionName":"GetTrafficTile"
I added the line breaks to illustrate my point, it looks like python is unhappy that the string contains double quotes.
I have a feeling this may be to do with my replacing '\ \' with '' messing with the unicode characters in the string. Is there any way to repair these nested strings? I don't mind if the StatusText field is deleted completely, all I'm after is a list of the ActionName fields.
EDIT:
I've hosted an example file here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1oanrneg3aqandz/2015-12-01T00%253A00%253A42.527Z_2015-12-01T00%253A01%253A17.478Z?dl=0
This is exactly as I received, before I've replaced the extra backslashes and quotations
Here is a pared down version of the sample with one bad entry
["{\"apiServerType\":0,\"RequestId\":\"52a65260-1637-4653-a496-7555a2386340\",\"StatusId\":0,\"StatusIdString\":\"Ok\",\"StatusText\":null,\"ActionName\":\"GetCameraImage\",\"Url\":\"http://mosi-prod.cloudapp.net/api/v1/GetCameraImage?AuthToken=vo*AB57XLptsKXf0AzKjf1MOgQ1hZ4BKipKgYl3uGew%7C&CameraId=13782\",\"Lat\":0.0,\"Lon\":0.0,\"iVendorId\":12561,\"iConsumerId\":2986897,\"iSliverId\":51846,\"UserId\":\"2986897\",\"HardwareId\":null,\"AuthToken\":\"vo*AB57XLptsKXf0AzKjf1MOgQ1hZ4BKipKgYl3uGew|\",\"RequestTime\":\"2015-12-01T00:00:42.5278699Z\",\"ResponseTime\":\"2015-12-01T00:01:02.5926127Z\",\"AppId\":null,\"HttpMethod\":\"GET\",\"RequestHeaders\":\"{\\\"Connection\\\":[\\\"keep-alive\\\"],\\\"Via\\\":[\\\"HTTP/1.1 nycnz01msp1ts10.wnsnet.attws.com\\\"],\\\"Accept\\\":[\\\"application/json\\\"],\\\"Accept-Encoding\\\":[\\\"gzip\\\",\\\"deflate\\\"],\\\"Accept-Language\\\":[\\\"en-us\\\"],\\\"Host\\\":[\\\"mosi-prod.cloudapp.net\\\"],\\\"User-Agent\\\":[\\\"Traffic/5.4.0\\\",\\\"CFNetwork/758.1.6\\\",\\\"Darwin/15.0.0\\\"]}\",\"RequestContentHeaders\":\"{}\",\"RequestContentBody\":\"\",\"ResponseBody\":null,\"ResponseContentHeaders\":\"{\\\"Content-Type\\\":[\\\"image/jpeg\\\"]}\",\"ResponseHeaders\":\"{}\",\"MiniProfilerJson\":null}"]
The problem is a little different than you think. Whatever program built these files used data that was already json-encoded and ended up double and even triple encoding some of the information. I peeled it apart in a shell session and got usable python data. You can (1) go dope-slap whoever wrote the program that built this steaming pile of... um... goodness? and (2) manually scan through and decode inner json strings.
I decoded the data and it was a list of strings, but those strings looked suspiciously like json
>>> data = json.load(open('test.json'))
>>> type(data)
<class 'list'>
>>> d0 = data[0]
>>> type(d0)
<class 'str'>
>>> d0[:70]
'{"apiServerType":0,"RequestId":"52a65260-1637-4653-a496-7555a2386340",'
Sure enough, I can decode it
>>> d0_1 = json.loads(d0)
>>> type(d0_1)
<class 'dict'>
>>> d0_1
{'ResponseBody': None, 'StatusText': None, 'AppId': None, 'ResponseTime': '2015-12-01T00:01:02.5926127Z', 'HardwareId': None, 'RequestTime': '2015-12-01T00:00:42.5278699Z', 'StatusId': 0, 'Lon': 0.0, 'Url': 'http://mosi-prod.cloudapp.net/api/v1/GetCameraImage?AuthToken=vo*AB57XLptsKXf0AzKjf1MOgQ1hZ4BKipKgYl3uGew%7C&CameraId=13782', 'RequestContentBody': '', 'RequestId': '52a65260-1637-4653-a496-7555a2386340', 'MiniProfilerJson': None, 'RequestContentHeaders': '{}', 'ActionName': 'GetCameraImage', 'StatusIdString': 'Ok', 'HttpMethod': 'GET', 'iSliverId': 51846, 'ResponseHeaders': '{}', 'ResponseContentHeaders': '{"Content-Type":["image/jpeg"]}', 'apiServerType': 0, 'AuthToken': 'vo*AB57XLptsKXf0AzKjf1MOgQ1hZ4BKipKgYl3uGew|', 'iConsumerId': 2986897, 'RequestHeaders': '{"Connection":["keep-alive"],"Via":["HTTP/1.1 nycnz01msp1ts10.wnsnet.attws.com"],"Accept":["application/json"],"Accept-Encoding":["gzip","deflate"],"Accept-Language":["en-us"],"Host":["mosi-prod.cloudapp.net"],"User-Agent":["Traffic/5.4.0","CFNetwork/758.1.6","Darwin/15.0.0"]}', 'iVendorId': 12561, 'Lat': 0.0, 'UserId': '2986897'}
Picking one of the entries, that looks like more json
>>> hdrs = d0_1['RequestHeaders']
>>> type(hdrs)
<class 'str'>
Yep, it decodes to what I want
>>> hdrs_0 = json.loads(hdrs)
>>> type(hdrs_0)
<class 'dict'>
>>>
>>> hdrs_0["Via"]
['HTTP/1.1 nycnz01msp1ts10.wnsnet.attws.com']
>>>
>>> type(hdrs_0["Via"])
<class 'list'>
Here you are :) :
responselist = []
with open('dataFile.json','r') as json_file:
reader = json_file.readlines()
for row in reader:
strActNm = 'ActionName":"'; lenActNm = len(strActNm)
actionAt = row.find(strActNm)
while actionAt > 0:
nxtQuotAt = row.find('"',actionAt+lenActNm+2)
responselist.append( row[actionAt-1: nxtQuotAt+1] )
actionAt = row.find('ActionName":"', nxtQuotAt)
print(responselist)
which gives:
>python3.6 -u "dataFile.py"
['"ActionName":"GetTrafficTile"']
>Exit code: 0
where dataFile.json is the file with the line you provided and dataFile.py the code provided above.
It's the hard tour, but if the files are in a bad format you have to find a way around and a simple pattern matching works in any case. For more complex cases you will need regex (regular expressions), but in this case a simple .find() is enough to do the job.
The code finds also multiple "actions" in the line (if the line would contain more than one action).
Here the result for the file you provided in your link while using following small modification of the code above:
responselist = []
with open('dataFile1.json','r') as json_file:
reader = json_file.readlines()
for row in reader:
strActNm='\\"ActionName\\":\\"'
# strActNm = 'ActionName":"'
lenActNm = len(strActNm)
actionAt = row.find(strActNm)
while actionAt > 0:
nxtQuotAt = row.find('"',actionAt+lenActNm+2)
responselist.append( row[actionAt: nxtQuotAt+1].replace('\\','') )
actionAt = row.find('ActionName":"', nxtQuotAt)
print(responselist)
gives:
>python3.6 -u "dataFile.py"
['"ActionName":"GetCameraImage"']
>Exit code: 0
where dataFile1.json is the file you provided in the link.
I download different Companies name from different websites from my localhost sometimes i face this problem and that is interrupt the download procedure.My script is working fine for others country but when i download Czech Republic this type of error is occurred.
Total companies processed so far:0 Traceback (most recent call last):
File "process1.py", line 261, in
print "Company Name: "+hit.text File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map) UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xfd' in
position 3 3: character maps to
my code is here :
if companyAlreadyKnown == 0:
for hit in soup2.findAll("h1"):
print "Company Name: "+hit.text
pCompanyName = hit.text
flog.write("\nCompany Name: "+str(pCompanyName))
companyObj.setCompanyName(pCompanyName)
I don't know why it is happened.Any suggestion in this problem?
Czech language contains a lot of non ASCII characters. u'\xfd' is a unicode representation of ý. You need to decode UTF-8. An even better solution is to detect what encoding the website you are scraping uses and decode to that one.
if companyAlreadyKnown == 0:
for hit in soup2.findAll("h1"):
company_name = hit.text.decode('utf-8')
print "Company Name: " + company_name
flog.write("\nCompany Name: " + pCompanyName)
companyObj.setCompanyName(company_name)