id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 4026,"Tyring to load a JSON dump fails with ""Expecting property name""",tyson@…,Jacob,"I started with a fresh database with the following model: /myproject/apps/databases/models.py {{{ class Subject(models.Model): """"""An academic subject area (Agriculture, Math, etc.)"""""" title = models.CharField(maxlength=100) slug = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=(""title"",), unique=True) }}} In the admin interface, I added three dummy Subject objects. In the terminal, I ran the following: {{{ $ python manage.py dumpdata databases > subjects.json }}} I placed it in my app's ""fixtures"" directory and ran the following: {{{ $ python manage.py loaddata subjects.json }}} Which gave me: {{{ Loading 'subjects' fixtures... Installing json fixture 'subjects' from '/Users/ttate/Desktop/myproject/../myproject/apps/databases/fixtures'. Problem installing fixture '/Users/ttate/Desktop/myproject/../myproject/apps/databases/fixtures/subjects.json': Expecting property name: line 2 column 1 (char 3) }}} Here's the exported JSON that I got from the dump: {{{ [{""pk"": ""3"", ""model"": ""databases.subject"", ""fields"": {""slug"": ""boom"", ""title"": ""Boom""}}, {""pk"": ""2"", ""model"": ""databases.subject"", ""fields"": {""slug"": ""more-testing"", ""title"": ""More Testing""}}, {""pk"": ""1"", ""model"": ""databases.subject"", ""fields"": {""slug"": ""test"", ""title"": ""Test""}}] }}}",,closed,Core (Serialization),dev,,worksforme,json loaddata dumpdata fixtures,,Unreviewed,0,0,0,0,0,0