Help with JSON format

I'm using a JSON example off the web, as seen below. ``` { "menu": "File", "commands": [ { "title": "New", "action":"CreateDoc" }, { "title": "Open", "action": "OpenDoc" }, { "title": "Close", "action": "CloseDoc" } ] } ``` I've tried loading this in two different parsers, one in C++ and in Python. Here's Python's traceback. ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 267, in load parse_constant=parse_constant, **kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 307, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 319, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 338, in raw_decode raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded") ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded ``` And here's what jsoncpp reports. ``` * Line 1, Column 1 Syntax error: value, object or array expected. ``` Any clue what I'm doing wrong? Edit: Ok, here's some code. For some reason now Python's working. I didn't do anything but go to the store. That must be a Python feature -- goto the store, random errors go away. Those Python devs are geniuses. But to the point. Here's the C++ code. ``` bool CFG::CFG_Init( const char* path ) { bool r = reader.parse( path, root ); if( r ) { return true; } else { std::cout << reader.getFormatedErrorMessages() << std::endl; return false; } } ``` I've tried this where 'path' was a std::string as well -- same thing. I'm calling the method like this: ``` if( !CFG_Init("test.json") ) { error("Couldn't load configuration."); } ``` And here's the class. ``` class CFG: virtual Evaluator { Json::Reader reader; public: Json::Value root; bool CFG_Init( const char* path); Json::Value CFG_Fetch_Raw(Json::Value section, std::string key, Json::Value defval); Json::Value CFG_Fetch(Json::Value section, std::string key, Json::Value defval ); }; ```