Python/Django json.loads() error when loading JSON File-CodePudding

In my Django project I have the following directory structure:

project/build/contracts/MyFile.json

And I am writing code in the following directory

project/homeapp/views.py

In my views.py I have the following code:

with open("../build/contracts/MyFile.json", "r") as f:
    data = json.loads(f.read())
    abi = data["abi"]

When I try to python manage.py runserver I get the following error:

The strange part is that I couldn't figure out what was wrong so I made a viewstest.py and placed the exact same code in it. When I run it with python .\viewstest.py and print the JSON to console, it works perfectly fine.

I even tried importing the abi variable from viewstest.py to views.py but got the same error. So I assume that it is an error relating to Django, but I can't seem to figure it out.

Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

It should be json.load() and not json.loads()

Change the following code to:

with open("../build/contracts/MyFile.json", "r") as file:
    data = json.load(file)
    abi = data["abi"]

Edit:

Another alternative to get the path correct can be to use Pathlib.

from pathlib import Path

def your_view_func(request):
        current_dir = Path.cwd()
        file_loc = 'build/contracts/MyFile.json'
        
        with open(current_dir.joinpath(file_loc), 'r') as file:
            data = json.load(file)
            abi = data["abi"]