How to fix IncompleteJSONError

[ShawnLin-pku]

I have come across the error when using ijson to parse big json file

IncompleteJSONError: lexical error: invalid char in json text.
                        {      "_id" : ObjectId("5e5d193d8cf3fe97fa488
                     (right here) ------^

My source code is as followed:

with codecs.open('lagou.json','rb') as f:
    objects = ijson.items(f,'item')
    print(objects.__next__())

It really confuses me that why character 'b' will be a invalid char

[rtobar]

(I took the liberty of editing the original question for correct formatting)

@ShawnLin-pku your JSON document is not valid: ObjectId is not a valid token in JSON. It looks like you have a document that looks like JSON, but isn't strictly JSON.

[ShawnLin-pku]

(I took the liberty of editing the original question for correct formatting)

@ShawnLin-pku your JSON document is not valid: ObjectId is not a valid token in JSON. It looks like you have a document that looks like JSON, but isn't strictly JSON.

Thanks for your reply. I exported this document from mongo database. So how can I load this file using ijson's iterator? (It's so big that I can't load it directly in memory)

[rtobar]

@ShawnLin-pku you can't load it with ijson because it's not a valid JSON document, it just looks very much like one.