json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting ‘:’ delimiter: line 1237 column 14 (char 64557)

Put comma where a colon should have been

As the error message suggests, the parser is expecting a colon : where it found some other character.

I got this error when I was trying to parse JSON with Python and I put a comma where I should have put a colon.

For example, this:

{ 
  "items":
  [ 
   {
     "abc", "xyz",
     "def", "lmnop"
   }
  ]
}

Should have been this:

{ 
  "items":
  [ 
   {
     "abc": "xyz",
     "def": "lmnop"
   }
  ]
}

Attributes and their values are separated by colons. Dictionaries have curly braces around them. Lists have square brackets around them.

In another case, I forgot the attribute name like this, where abc from the above example is missing:

{ 
  "items":
  [ 
   {
     "xyz",
     "def": "lmnop"
   }
  ]
}

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