AttributeError("'str' object has no attribute 'read'")
Solution 1
The problem is that for json.load
you should pass a file like object with a read
function defined. So either you use json.load(response)
or json.loads(response.read())
.
Solution 2
Ok, this is an old thread but.
I had a same issue, my problem was I used json.load
instead of json.loads
This way, json has no problem with loading any kind of dictionary.
json.load - Deserialize fp (a .read()-supporting text file or binary file containing a JSON document) to a Python object using this conversion table.
json.loads - Deserialize s (a str, bytes or bytearray instance containing a JSON document) to a Python object using this conversion table.
Solution 3
You need to open the file first. This doesn't work:
json_file = json.load('test.json')
But this works:
f = open('test.json')
json_file = json.load(f)
Solution 4
If you get a python error like this:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'some_method'
You probably poisoned your object accidentally by overwriting your object with a string.
How to reproduce this error in python with a few lines of code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import json
def foobar(json):
msg = json.loads(json)
foobar('{"batman": "yes"}')
Run it, which prints:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'loads'
But change the name of the variablename, and it works fine:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import json
def foobar(jsonstring):
msg = json.loads(jsonstring)
foobar('{"batman": "yes"}')
This error is caused when you tried to run a method within a string. String has a few methods, but not the one you are invoking. So stop trying to invoke a method which String does not define and start looking for where you poisoned your object.
Solution 5
AttributeError("'str' object has no attribute 'read'",)
This means exactly what it says: something tried to find a .read
attribute on the object that you gave it, and you gave it an object of type str
(i.e., you gave it a string).
The error occurred here:
json.load (jsonofabitch)['data']['children']
Well, you aren't looking for read
anywhere, so it must happen in the json.load
function that you called (as indicated by the full traceback). That is because json.load
is trying to .read
the thing that you gave it, but you gave it jsonofabitch
, which currently names a string (which you created by calling .read
on the response
).
Solution: don't call .read
yourself; the function will do this, and is expecting you to give it the response
directly so that it can do so.
You could also have figured this out by reading the built-in Python documentation for the function (try help(json.load)
, or for the entire module (try help(json)
), or by checking the documentation for those functions on http://docs.python.org .
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Updated on July 31, 2021Comments
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RobinJ almost 3 years
In Python I'm getting an error:
Exception: (<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>, AttributeError("'str' object has no attribute 'read'",), <traceback object at 0x1543ab8>)
Given python code:
def getEntries (self, sub): url = 'http://www.reddit.com/' if (sub != ''): url += 'r/' + sub request = urllib2.Request (url + '.json', None, {'User-Agent' : 'Reddit desktop client by /user/RobinJ1995/'}) response = urllib2.urlopen (request) jsonStr = response.read() return json.load(jsonStr)['data']['children']
What does this error mean and what did I do to cause it?
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zakdances over 11 yearsI don't understand this...how does doing read() solve the problem? The response still doesn't have a read function. Are we supposed to put the string in some object with a read function?
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Joshmaker about 11 years@yourfriendzak read closely, it is two different functions with very similar names.
json.load()
takes a file like object with aread()
method,json.loads()
takes a string. It's easy to miss the "s" at the end and think they are the same method. -
Yu Shen about 11 yearsThanks to Joshmaker's comment, json.loads() can parse string for JSON data!
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chaim almost 10 years@yourfriendzak This answer would point you that with
open
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MANISH ZOPE over 9 yearsThanks Joshmaker. Your andwe is useful to me. load, loads ....How un-intuitive names given by originators of library. Really illogical
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Karl Knechtel over 8 years@MANISHZOPE the
s
stands for "string". I agree that the standard library has some serious issues overall with how things are named, and this is a good example of how it gets messed up. -
Rishav over 5 years@kosii I request you to what @Joshmaker said in your answer. It would be more helpful to users who just tent to overlook that tiny
s
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Arthur Attout almost 5 yearsI hope the person who thought
json.loads
was more self-explanatory thanjson.load_string
has been fired right after the release. -
Karl Knechtel over 4 yearsThat's what OP called it. I'm always on the fence about whether to change or preserve such identifier names when helping others. :/
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Andrea Ligios over 4 yearsOh, you're right, I've skimmed it... I wasn't complaining, though :)
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Nitin Khanna about 4 yearsI found the error in the question when trying to open a file instead of a request response in the question. Clearly, at the backend, json is treating both similarly, and so this answer helped me. Clearly worth an upvote.
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Amir Md Amiruzzaman over 3 years"loads" worked for me. Thank you for your solution