Why is this parsing of JSON failing in django/python

Question

The code below ends up printing failure.

    try:
        print request.raw_post_data
        json_data = simplejson.loads(request.raw_post_data)
    except:
        print "failure"

The out put of the first print is

    JSON: {"password":"wfbarks","email":"wfbarks","username":"wfbarks"}

Does anybody know what is wrong this this?

You should avoid using "catch-all" excepts as they will make debugging a lot harder, or just raise the exception. — Thomas Orozco
– Thomas Orozco, Commented Nov 29, 2011 at 2:17
Thanks for the advice, I just threw that in there to figure out where the problem was, for this case. — wfbarksdale
– wfbarksdale, Commented Nov 29, 2011 at 2:37
You could then use a raise statement in your except clause so you can get the traceback ;) — Thomas Orozco
– Thomas Orozco, Commented Nov 29, 2011 at 11:43

Amadan · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-29 01:19:25Z

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The JSON: part is not valid JSON. Strip it before loads. The remainder (i.e. {"password":"wfbarks","email":"wfbarks","username":"wfbarks"}) should be valid JSON.

answered Nov 29, 2011 at 1:19

Amadan

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