green schooner
currently making a project where i just need to load in a json file, but for whatever reason whenever i execute the same 2 pieces of code into 2 different file extentions (in this case the FIRST screenshot is .py and the SECOND screenshot is .ipynb (jupyter notebook)
why does it work on the jupyter one but not the .py one?
screenshot 3 is the contents of the #gamingcaptions.json btw
frail fulcrumBOT
currently making a project where i just need to load in a json file, but for wha...
@green schooner
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green schooner
essentially it just errors running this piece of code in a standard .py file but not .ipynb file. how can I fix this?
balmy mason
does your file's name really begin with a #? That's unusual.
green schooner
yeah could probs change that but it just makes sense for me personally
however if that alters the way python reads files then ill edit it
balmy mason
I don't understand the actual problem. You said it doesn't work, but what exactly is it doing, and how is that different from what you wanted?
green schooner
nono what i meant was
balmy mason
post your code as text, not screenshots
green schooner
in the jupyter notebook file, the code works
but in the .py file it doesnt
this is the code
with open('#gamingcaptions.json') as f:
tags = list(json.load(f))
print(len(tags))
ok you said it doesn't "work". So, again: what is it doing, and how is that different from what you expected?
green schooner
all its doing is just reading an empty list in a json file, but what is different to what i expected in the .py file is that in the .py file, i get a JSONDecodeError
but when i run that same code in a cell in jupyter notebook, it returns 0 as it should (as there is an empty list in the json file itself)
balmy mason
can you paste the text of the error?
green schooner
yea sure
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\a\Desktop\desktop stuff\nea files\tiktokscrape\alevelnea\nea.py", line 566, in <module>
web_scrape()
File "c:\Users\a\Desktop\desktop stuff\nea files\tiktokscrape\alevelnea\nea.py", line 532, in web_scrape
tags = list(json.load(f))
File "C:\Users\a\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\json_init_.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "C:\Users\a\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\json_init_.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Users\a\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Users\a\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
balmy mason
that means that the file you're reading is entirely empty.
I can't explain why it's empty, but it is.
green schooner
the thing is the file isnt actually empty, it only contains an empty list (which is '[]' )
woven flare
!rule 5 tiktok's ToS prohibits automated scraping. You can only use their official API for automated use
balmy mason
it's possible that you have two files with the same name -- one of which is empty, and the other of which has proper JSON in it.
frail fulcrumBOT
