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copied!<p>The <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/18515363/1639625">answer by @Michael</a> gave me an idea... not a very pretty idea, but it seems to work, at least on your example: Try to parse the JSON string, and if it fails, look for the character where it failed in the exception string<sup>1</sup> and replace that character.</p> <pre><code>while True: try: result = json.loads(s) # try to parse... break # parsing worked -> exit loop except Exception as e: # "Expecting , delimiter: line 34 column 54 (char 1158)" # position of unexpected character after '"' unexp = int(re.findall(r'\(char (\d+)\)', str(e))[0]) # position of unescaped '"' before that unesc = s.rfind(r'"', 0, unexp) s = s[:unesc] + r'\"' + s[unesc+1:] # position of correspondig closing '"' (+2 for inserted '\') closg = s.find(r'"', unesc + 2) s = s[:closg] + r'\"' + s[closg+1:] print result </code></pre> <p>You may want to add some additional checks to prevent this from ending in an infinite loop (e.g., at max as many repetitions as there are characters in the string). <strike>Also, this will still not work if an incorrect <code>"</code> is actually followed by a comma, as pointed out by @gnibbler.</strike></p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> This seems to work <em>pretty</em> well now (though still not perfect), even if the unescaped <code>"</code> is followed by a comma, or closing bracket, as in this case it will likely get a complaint about a syntax error after that (expected property name, etc.) and trace back to the last <code>"</code>. It also automatically escapes the corresponding closing <code>"</code> (assuming there is one).</p> <hr> <p><sup>1)</sup> The exception's <code>str</code> is <code>"Expecting , delimiter: line XXX column YYY (char ZZZ)"</code>, where ZZZ is the position in the string where the error occurred. Note, though, that this message may depend on the version of Python, the <code>json</code> module, the OS, or the locale, and thus this solution may have to be adapted accordingly.</p>

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