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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: json decode issue
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:03:03 -0400
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On 7/14/2011 3:20 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 14/07/2011 18:22, Miki Tebeka wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm trying to decode JSON output of a Java program (jackson) and
>> having some issues.
>> The cause of the problem is the following snippet:
>> {
>> "description": "... lives\uMOVE=99 OFFERS ",
>> }
>> Which causes ValueError: Invalid \uXXXX escape.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to fix this?
>>
> Is that valid JSON? If not, you'll either need to fix the program which=

> generated it (or report it as a bug), or pre-process the JSON to
> correct the error, if you know what it should be.

If you delete or double the backslash in that one particular spot, the=20
string will parse, even if it is not correct.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy