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import json
import re
from os import listdir
def fix_escapes(string):
# Libris over-escapes some backslashes.
string = string.replace("\\\\\"","\\\"")
# Libris fails to properly escape backslashes in strings, which occurs for example with inline
# LaTeX codes like "$\geq" which should be escaped as "$\\geq". They do seem to properly
# escape quote chars, however. Now, we can't easily know whethera string liike "\n" should be
# parsed as a newline (which it should in proper JSON) or as a backslash and an n. So while this
# might break some LaTeX codes, at least the JSON parsing should work.
return re.sub(r'(?<!\\)\\(?!["\\/])', r"\\\\", string)
for filename in listdir("GU20151228json/"): #alla filer i en katalog
print("opening " + filename)
with open("GU20151228json/" + filename, "rb") as currentFile:
bytes = currentFile.read()
string = fix_escapes(bytes.decode('utf-8'))
jsondata = json.loads(string)
print("parsed correctly")
for record in jsondata["xsearch"]["list"]:
print(record["title"])
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