gistfile1.txt

In [1]: import json

In [2]: f = '''{
   ...:  "skip_pkg_tags" : true,
   ...: }
   ...: '''

In [3]: json.loads(f)
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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/jdob/<ipython-input-3-37fa654956bd> in <module>()
----> 1 json.loads(f)

/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.pyc in loads(s, encoding, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
    324             parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
    325             parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
--> 326         return _default_decoder.decode(s)
    327     if cls is None:
    328         cls = JSONDecoder

/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.pyc in decode(self, s, _w)
    364 
    365         """
--> 366         obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
    367         end = _w(s, end).end()
    368         if end != len(s):

/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.pyc in raw_decode(self, s, idx)
    380         """
    381         try:
--> 382             obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
    383         except StopIteration:
    384             raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")

ValueError: Expecting property name: line 3 column 1 (char 27)

In [4]: f = '''{
 "skip_pkg_tags" : true 
}
'''

In [5]: json.loads(f)
Out[5]: {u'skip_pkg_tags': True}

In [6]: