Python3.8 JSON module not working on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jmespath/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from jmespath import parser
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jmespath/parser.py", line 30, in <module>
    from jmespath import lexer
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jmespath/lexer.py", line 3, in <module>
    from json import loads
ImportError: cannot import name 'loads' from 'json' (unknown location)

Whenever I try to do "import json" in my python3.8 code, I get the following mentioned error. If I remove "import json" from the code, the python3.8 code works perfectly fine. Importing json is mandatory for me because there are multiple files where import json is used. I cannot change it everywhere. So the possible solution is to get the broken json fixed. It looks like my Ubuntu20.04 is broken.

Thanks in advance. Any help would be appreciable.

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4 Answers

I was the same problem with my Python version on MacOS installed from homebrew. (3.9.6)

After investigation, I was an other json dependancies install in the global site-package (global python packages folder) that override the standard lib json.

So. I just deleted the json folder and a file in this global site-package folder and it work fine !

In my case :

rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/json
rm -f /usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/json_extensions-0.2.1-py3.9-nspkg.pth
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From the discussion in chat

@juanpa.arrivillaga Problem is solved. Python was installed in 2 places. One in .local and other in root account. As soon as I removed the ./local/lib/python3.8/json , it automatically started pointing to /usr/lib/python3.8/json and the code worked. Thank you all for your support

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My solution was similar to Albans. For me it all broke when IntelliJ tried to install boto3 and installed some packages to /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages . I just removed the json folder and the json_extensions-0.2.1-py3.9-nspkg.pth file.

I was able to determine where the folder was from IntelliJ was because you can see the Extended Libraries > Python 3 . And although I had a Library root similar to Albans which was /usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.7/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9, there was no site packages in that folder. You can see the site-package folder right in that same location in IntelliJ and once you delete that json folder and pth file, it starts working again.

Edit: I looked into this further, and it installs json/schema into that folder. Not sure why it would install json.schema in the same json folder as a built in library.

json.schema folder: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/json/schema/

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Maybe you should try to only import json and use it's function instead, like this :

import json
json.loads(json_data)
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