'module' object has no attribute 'loads' while parsing JSON using python
Question: I am trying to parse JSON from Python. I recently started working with Python
so I followed some stackoverflow tutorial how to parse JSON using Python and I
came up with below code -

    
    
    #!/usr/bin/python
    import json
    
    j = json.loads('{"script":"#!/bin/bash echo Hello World"}')
    print j['script']
    

But whenever I run the above code, I always get this error -

    
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "json.py", line 2, in <module>
        import json
      File "/cygdrive/c/ZookPython/json.py", line 4, in <module>
        j = json.loads('{"script":"#!/bin/bash echo Hello World"}')
    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'loads'
    

Any thoughts what wrong I am doing here? I am running cygwin in windows and
from there only I am running my python program. I am using Python 2.7.3

And is there any better and efficient way of parsing the JSON as well?

**Update:-**

Below code doesn't work if I remove the single quote since I am getting JSON
string from some other method -

    
    
    #!/usr/bin/python
    
    import json
    
    jsonStr = {"script":"#!/bin/bash echo Hello World"}
    
    j = json.loads(jsonStr)
    shell_script = j['script']
    print shell_script
    

So before deserializing how to make sure, it has single quote as well?

This is the error I get -

    
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "jsontest.py", line 7, in <module>
        j = json.loads(jsonStr)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 326, in loads
        return _default_decoder.decode(s)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
        obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
    TypeError: expected string or buffer
    


Answer: 
    File "json.py", line 2, in <module>
      import json
    

This line is a giveaway: you have named your script "json", but you are trying
to import the builtin module called "json", since your script is in the
current directory, it comes first in sys.path, and so that's the module that
gets imported.

You need to rename your script to something else, preferrably not a standard
python module.

