title: Invalid control character with Python json.loads
body: <p>Below is my string that is getting printed out with the below code -</p>
  
  <pre><code>jsonString = data.decode("utf-8")
  
  print jsonString
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And below is the string that got printed out on the console - </p>
  
  <pre><code>{"description":"Script to check testtbeat of TEST 1 server.", "script":"#!/bin/bash\nset -e\n\nCOUNT=60   #number of 10 second timeouts in 10 minutes\nSUM_SYNCS=0\nSUM_SYNCS_BEHIND=0\nHOSTNAME=$hostname      \n\nwhile [[ $COUNT -ge \"0\" ]]; do\n\necho $HOSTNAME\n\n#send the request, put response in variable\nDATA=$(wget -O - -q -t 1 http://$HOSTNAME:8080/heartbeat)\n\n#grep $DATA for syncs and syncs_behind\nSYNCS=$(echo $DATA | grep -oE 'num_syncs: [0-9]+' | awk '{print $2}')\nSYNCS_BEHIND=$(echo $DATA | grep -oE 'num_syncs_behind: [0-9]+' | awk '{print $2}')\n\necho $SYNCS\necho $SYNCS_BEHIND\n\n#verify conditionals\nif [[ $SYNCS -gt \"8\" &amp;&amp; $SYNCS_BEHIND -eq \"0\" ]]; then exit 0; fi\n\n#decrement the counter\nlet COUNT-=1\n\n#wait another 10 seconds\nsleep 10\n\ndone\n"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I load this out using python <code>json.loads</code> as shown below- </p>
  
  <pre><code>jStr = json.loads(jsonString)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting this error -</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR Invalid control character at: line 1 column 202 (char 202)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I looked at char 202 but I have no idea why that is causing an issue? char 202 in my notepad++ is <code>e</code> I guess.. Or may be I am calculating it wrong</p>
  
  <p>Any idea what is wrong? How do I find out which one is causing problem.</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:-</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>jsonString = {"description":"Script to check testtbeat of TIER 1 server.", "script":"#!/bin/bash\nset -e\n\nCOUNT=60   #number of 10 second timeouts in 10 minutes\nSUM_SYNCS=0\nSUM_SYNCS_BEHIND=0\nHOSTNAME=$hostname      \n\nwhile [[ $COUNT -ge \"0\" ]]; do\n\necho $HOSTNAME\n\n#send the request, put response in variable\nDATA=$(wget -O - -q -t 1 http://$HOSTNAME:8080/heartbeat)\n\n#grep $DATA for syncs and syncs_behind\nSYNCS=$(echo $DATA | grep -oE 'num_syncs: [0-9]+' | awk '{print $2}')\nSYNCS_BEHIND=$(echo $DATA | grep -oE 'num_syncs_behind: [0-9]+' | awk '{print $2}')\n\necho $SYNCS\necho $SYNCS_BEHIND\n\n#verify conditionals\nif [[ $SYNCS -gt \"8\" &amp;&amp; $SYNCS_BEHIND -eq \"0\" ]]; then exit 0; fi\n\n#decrement the counter\nlet COUNT-=1\n\n#wait another 10 seconds\nsleep 10\n\ndone\n"}
  
  print jsonString[202]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Below error I got - </p>
  
  <pre><code>KeyError: 202
  </code></pre>