There are several problems with the logic of your code.

ss = s.read()

reads the entire file s into a single string. The next line

for line in ss:

iterates over each character in that string, one by one. So on each loop line is a single character. In

    line = ss[7:]

you are getting the entire file contents apart from the first 7 characters (in positions 0 through 6, inclusive) and replacing the previous content of line with that. And then

T.append(json.loads(line))

attempts to convert that to JSON and store the resulting object into the T list.

Here's some code that does what you want. We don't need to read the entire file into a string with .read, or into a list of lines with .readlines, we can simply put the file handle into a for loop and that will iterate over the file line by line.

We use a with statement to open the file, so that it will get closed automatically when we exit the with block, or if there's an IO error.

import json

table = []
with open('simple.json', 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        table.append(json.loads(line[7:]))

for row in table:
    print(row)

output

{'color': '33ef', 'age': '55', 'gender': 'm'}
{'color': '3444', 'age': '56', 'gender': 'f'}
{'color': '3999', 'age': '70', 'gender': 'm'}

We can make this more compact by building the table list in a list comprehension:

import json

with open('simple.json', 'r') as f:
    table = [json.loads(line[7:]) for line in f]

for row in table:
    print(row)

Update: I wrote a solution that does not require reading the entire file in one go. It is too big for a stackoverflow answer, but can be found here jsonstream.

You can use json.JSONDecoder.raw_decode to decode arbitarily big strings of "stacked" JSON (so long as they can fit in memory). raw_decode stops once it has a valid object and returns the last position where was not part of the parsed object. It is poorly documented [1] (see footer), but you can pass this position back to raw_decode and it start parsing again from that position. Unfortunately, the Python json module doesn ot accept strings that have prefixing whitespace. So we need to search to find the first non-whitespace part of your document.

from json import JSONDecoder, JSONDecodeError
import re

NOT_WHITESPACE = re.compile(r'\S')

def decode_stacked(document, idx=0, decoder=JSONDecoder()):
    while True:
        match = NOT_WHITESPACE.search(document, idx)
        if not match:
            return
        idx = match.start()
        
        try:
            obj, idx = decoder.raw_decode(document, idx)
        except JSONDecodeError:
            # do something sensible if there's some error
            raise
        yield obj

s = """

{"a": 1}  


   [
1
,   
2
]


"""

for obj in decode_stacked(s):
    print(obj)

prints:

{'a': 1}
[1, 2]

Note About Missing Documentation

The current signature of raw_decode() dates from 2009, when simplejson was ported into the standard library. The documentation for raw_decode() in simplejson mentions an optional idx argument that can be used to start parsing at an offset. Given that the signature of raw_decode() has not changed since 2009, I think it is fair to assume the API is fairly stable. Especially as decode() uses the idx argument of raw_decode() to ignore prefixing whitespace when parsing a string. And this is exactly what this answer is using the idx argument for too. The documentation of raw_decode() in simplejson is:

raw_decode(s[, idx=0])

Decode a JSON document from s (a str or unicode beginning with a JSON document) starting from the index idx and return a 2-tuple of the Python representation and the index in s where the document ended.

This can be used to decode a JSON document from a string that may have extraneous data at the end, or to decode a string that has a series of JSON objects.

JSONDecodeError will be raised if the given JSON document is not valid.

You have a JSON Lines format text file. You need to parse your file line by line:

import json

data = []
with open('file') as f:
    for line in f:
        data.append(json.loads(line))

Each line contains valid JSON, but as a whole, it is not a valid JSON value as there is no top-level list or object definition.

Note that because the file contains JSON per line, you are saved the headaches of trying to parse it all in one go or to figure out a streaming JSON parser. You can now opt to process each line separately before moving on to the next, saving memory in the process. You probably don't want to append each result to one list and then process everything if your file is really big.

If you have a file containing individual JSON objects with delimiters in-between, use How do I use the 'json' module to read in one JSON object at a time? to parse out individual objects using a buffered method.

The content of file you described is not a valid JSON object this is why bot approaches are not working.

To transform in something you can load with json.load(fd) you have to:

1. add a [ at the beginning of the file
2. add a , between each object
3. add a ] at the very end of the file

then you can use the Method 2. For instance:

[ { "a": 1,
    "b" : 2,
    "c" : {
      "d":3
    }
  }, { "e" : 4,
       "f" : 5,
       "g" : {
         "h":6
       }
  }
]

is a valid JSON array

If the file format is exactly as you've described you could do

with open(filename, 'r') as infile:
    data = infile.read()
    new_data = data.replace('}{', '},{')
    json_data = json.loads(f'[{new_data}]')

Load 6 extra lines instead, and pass the string to json.loads():

with open(file) as f:
    for line in f:
        # slice the next 6 lines from the iterable, as a list.
        lines = [line] + list(itertools.islice(f, 6))
        jfile = json.loads(''.join(lines))

        # do something with jfile

json.load() will slurp up more than just the next object in the file, and islice(f, 0, 7) would read only the first 7 lines, rather than read the file in 7-line blocks.

You can wrap reading a file in blocks of size N in a generator:

from itertools import islice, chain

def lines_per_n(f, n):
    for line in f:
        yield ''.join(chain([line], itertools.islice(f, n - 1)))

then use that to chunk up your input file:

with open(file) as f:
    for chunk in lines_per_n(f, 7):
        jfile = json.loads(chunk)

        # do something with jfile

Alternatively, if your blocks turn out to be of variable length, read until you have something that parses:

with open(file) as f:
    for line in f:
        while True:
            try:
                jfile = json.loads(line)
                break
            except ValueError:
                # Not yet a complete JSON value
                line += next(f)

        # do something with jfile

If every json object is on its own line, you should be able to do something like

with open('/path/to/file') as data:
    objects = [json.loads(line) for line in data]

It sounds like you have code which works on "Mike's Pies.20130201.json", and you want to run that code on every file that starts with "Mike's Pies" and ends with "json", regardless of the timestamp-like bit in the middle. Am I right? You can get all matching filenames with glob and parse them one after the other.

for filename in glob.glob("Mike's Pies.*.json"):
    with open(filename) as json_data:
        data = json.load(json_data)
        #etc etc... Insert rest of code here

The file format is not correct if this is the complete file. Between the curly brackets there must be a comma and it should start and end with a square bracket. Like so: [{...},{...}]. For your data it would look like:

[{"review_id":"x7mDIiDB3jEiPGPHOmDzyw","user_id":"msQe1u7Z_XuqjGoqhB0J5g","business_id": ...},
{"review_id":"dDl8zu1vWPdKGihJrwQbpw","user_id":"msQe1u7Z_XuqjGoqhB0J5g","business_id": ...}]

Here is some code how to clean your file:

lastline = None

with open("yourfile.json","r") as f:
    lineList = f.readlines()
    lastline=lineList[-1]

with open("yourfile.json","r") as f, open("cleanfile.json","w") as g:
    for i,line in enumerate(f,0):
        if i == 0:
            line = "["+str(line)+","
            g.write(line)
        elif line == lastline:            
            g.write(line)
            g.write("]")
        else:
            line = str(line)+","
            g.write(line)

To read a json file properly you could also consider using the pandas library (https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_json.html).

import pandas as pd

#get a pandas dataframe object from json file
df = pd.read_json("path/to/your/filename.json")

If you are not familiar with pandas, here a quick headstart, how to work with a dataframe object:

df.head() #gives you the first rows of the dataframe
df["review_id"] # gives you the column review_id as a vector
df.iloc[1,:] # gives you the complete row with index 1
df.iloc[1,2] # gives you the item in row with index 1 and column with index 2