Survive Malformed JSON

Easy ⏱ 8 min 88% acceptance ★★★★☆ 4.2

Write parse_or_none(raw) returning the parsed object, or None when raw is not valid JSON — catching json.JSONDecodeError specifically, not bare Exception.

Examples

Example 1

Input

parse_or_none('[1, 2]')

Output

[1, 2]

Explanation

Valid JSON parses normally.

Example 2

Input

parse_or_none('{oops}')

Output

None

Explanation

The decode error is absorbed.

Constraints

Catch json.JSONDecodeError only.
Return the parsed value otherwise.

Topics

JSONJSONDecodeError

Companies

AkamaiCloudflareFastly

Hints

Hint 1

JSONDecodeError lives on the json module.

Hint 2

One try/except around loads.

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