The correct answer is: stop NOT wanting to catch the ValueError
.
Example Python script returns a boolean if a string is valid json:
import json
def is_json(myjson):
try:
json_object = json.loads(myjson)
except ValueError as e:
return False
return True
print(is_json('{}')) # prints True
print(is_json('{asdf}')) # prints False
print(is_json('{"age":100}')) # prints True
print(is_json('{'age':100 }')) # prints False
print(is_json('{"age":100 }')) # prints True