[FIXED] How to read two concatenated JSON files?

Issue

I have the follwing file consising of two concatendated JSON strings:

{
  "hello": 2,
  "world": 3
}{
  "something": 5,
  "else": 6
}

Both of them are correct individually (they are more complex than that, but are always two JSON dicts one after each other).

Since I can predict the format of the first one (close to my example above), I will parse the file with a regex expression and end up separating them (I just need the second JSON):

{[\s\S]*?}([.\n]*?)

While this solution works, I wanted to make sure that there is not a more generic way to address this problem.

Solution

You can simply format your string by converting it to a valid python object like a list of dictionary then load it with json module:

In [60]: s = """{
  "hello": 2,
  "world": 3
}{
  "something": 5,
  "else": 6
}"""

In [61]: json.loads("[{}]".format(s.replace('}{', '},{')))
Out[61]: [{'hello': 2, 'world': 3}, {'something': 5, 'else': 6}]

Answered By - Mazdak