ijson fails with trailing garbage parse error

Question

for prefix, event, value in parser:
    print(prefix)

I get the following error after executing the above code , I dont understand what the error is.

ijson.common.IncompleteJSONError: parse error: trailing garbage nt":19485,"verified":false}} {"user_id":1408970940,"id":4496 (right here) ------^

Answer 1

Seems you are trying to parse a JSON document with more than one top-level object, which is not standard. ijson allows for this though if you give the multiple_values=True flag to the method you are using.