AttributeError str object has no attribute read

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In Python I m getting an error  Exception     lt type  exceptions AttributeError  gt   AttributeError  quot  str  object has no attribute  read  quot      lt traceback object at 0x1543ab8 gt    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

User · Accepted Answer

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

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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    Official documentation     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

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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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

[python] AttributeError("'str' object has no attribute 'read'")

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