Wow, thanks everyone! Didn’t expect so many tips.
Tried the encoding fix (`utf-8-sig`) and it worked—turns out my JSON had hidden BOM chars. Also, the try-except block helped catch other edge cases.
Follow-up: What’s the best way to handle nested JSON? My dict now has layers, and it’s a bit messy to navigate.
(And yeah, I was using the right `json.load()`—thanks for clarifying!)
Tried the encoding fix (`utf-8-sig`) and it worked—turns out my JSON had hidden BOM chars. Also, the try-except block helped catch other edge cases.
Follow-up: What’s the best way to handle nested JSON? My dict now has layers, and it’s a bit messy to navigate.
(And yeah, I was using the right `json.load()`—thanks for clarifying!)