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pythonjsondecodetypeerrorattributeerror
Emmy R
Emmy R

Reputation: 132

How to call json.decode()?

The code I am working on is a function that converts a JSON object into iCalendar form. To do this, I am writing an iCalendar template, and then inserting the info from the JSON into that. My code requires JSON's decode which has caused me a lot of setbacks lately. Here is what I have tried and the error messages I am getting.

import json
def convert(jsonData)
    ....
    data = json.decode(jsonData)

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

This error confuses me because the method is in the JSON API https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html#module-json

import json
def convert(jsonData)
    ....
    data = json.JSONDecoder().decode(jsonData)

TypeError: expected string or buffer

The second error references a line of code in decode(): line 366

end = self.raw_decode(s,idx=_w(s,o).end())

EDIT:

data = json.JSONDecoder.decode(jsonData)

TypeError: unbound method decode() must be called with JSONDecoder instance as first argument (got dict instance instead)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 279

Answers (1)

William Jackson
William Jackson

Reputation: 1165

If jsonData is a string, you just need json.loads(jsonData) to convert it to a Python object.

Upvotes: 1

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