Read a json file using python

Question

with open('file.json', "r") as input_file:    
    data = json.load(input_file)
print(data)

This is my piece of code of reading a json file. It works fine with I run it in a.py, but it gave me error when i put it on Jupyter Notebook as follows:

JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

The json file looks like this: Can anyone help me with it. Thanks

Answer 1

You need read() to import the json into your file according to this:

with open('sample_tweets.json', "r") as input_file:    
    data = json.load(input_file.read())

I could not verify it with your json file, but that is the way it works for me.