Getting "AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'"

Question

I am a beginner. I can't get a json file to load as a string/dict in Python 3.

import json
data = open("Toys_and_Games_5.json", "r")
file = data.read().decode('utf-8')
reviews = json.loads(file)

Error:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Answer 1

This is all you need to do:

import json
data = json.load(open("Toys_and_Games_5.json"))