Json Decoder Error when reading from JSON file in Python-CodePudding

I am trying to read a JSON file(17MB) stored in the google drive into collaboratory. Here is the code:

import json
with open('GOOGLEDRIVE_FILEPATH/FILE_NAME.json',encoding="utf-8-sig") as f:
  data=json.load(f)

But data=json.load(f) results in a JSONDecodeError: JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 1 column 177193 (char 177192) The JSON file is of the format:

[{ "id":1,
    "name": "Joe" 
},{"id":2,
    "name": "Jane" },
.
.
{"id": xxx,
    "name": "xxx" }
]

What could be the possible reason for such an error?

CodePudding user response：

This issue was resolved by removing stray characters in the JSON file that crept into the file during the append operation.