from __future__ import print_function import argparse import sys import simplejson def check_json(argv=None): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('filenames', nargs='*', help='JSON filenames to check.') args = parser.parse_args(argv) retval = 0 for filename in args.filenames: try: simplejson.load(open(filename)) except (simplejson.JSONDecodeError, UnicodeDecodeError) as exc: print('{0}: Failed to json encode ({1})'.format(filename, exc)) retval = 1 return retval if __name__ == '__main__': sys.exit(check_json())