json string decoding encountering invalid escape

Question

I am using simplejson to decode the following json string.

Here is a demo written in Python:

from simplejson import loads

loads("""["\s"]""")

The decoder will throw:

JSONDecodeError: Invalid \escape

How to cope with this? The expected output is:

["\\s"]

Answer 1

"\s" is not a valid JSON escape string.

According to json.org, only the following escape are valid

• \"
• \\
• /
• \b
• \f
• \n
• \r
• \t
• \u four-hex-digits