Zachary Ware added the comment:
You're passing in a filename, not a file-like object (see
https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#json.load). Instead, you'll want
something like:
with open(filename) as f:
json_data = json.load(f)
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New submission from Justin Rose :
when I run the included file i get an error that looks like:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/justin/Desktop/pkmn/main.py", line 10, in
expansion = json.load(expan_list)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 296, in load