I am simply trying to read my json file in Python. I am in the correct folder when I do so; I am in Downloads, and my file is called 'Books_5.json'. However, when I try to use the .read() function, I get the error
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
This is my code:
import json
config = json.loads(open('Books_5.json').read())
This also raises the same error:
books = open('Books_5.json').read()
If it helps, this is a small snippet of what my data looks like:
{"reviewerID": "A10000012B7CGYKOMPQ4L", "asin": "000100039X", "reviewerName": "Adam", "helpful": [0, 0], "reviewText": "Spiritually and mentally inspiring! A book that allows you to question your morals and will help you discover who you really are!", "overall": 5.0, "summary": "Wonderful!", "unixReviewTime": 1355616000, "reviewTime": "12 16, 2012"}
{"reviewerID": "A2S166WSCFIFP5", "asin": "000100039X", "reviewerName": "adead_poet@hotmail.com \"adead_poet@hotmail.com\"", "helpful": [0, 2], "reviewText": "This is one my must have books. It is a masterpiece of spirituality. I'll be the first to admit, its literary quality isn't much. It is rather simplistically written, but the message behind it is so powerful that you have to read it. It will take you to enlightenment.", "overall": 5.0, "summary": "close to god", "unixReviewTime": 1071100800, "reviewTime": "12 11, 2003"}
I'm using Python 3.6 on MacOSX
It appears that this is some kind of bug that occurs when the file is too large (my file was ~10GB). Once I use split to break up the file by 200 k lines, the .read() error goes away. This is true even if the file is not in strict json format.