# Notebook does not appear to be JSON: '{\\n "cells": \[\\n {\\n "cell\_type": "c

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/notebook-does-not-appear-to-be-json-n-cells-n-n-cell-type-c/4792>\
**Category:** Notebook\
**Created:** [June 10, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/notebook-does-not-appear-to-be-json-n-cells-n-n-cell-type-c/4792 "2020-06-10T07:45:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![webel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@webel](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/webel)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/notebook-does-not-appear-to-be-json-n-cells-n-n-cell-type-c/4792/1 "2020-06-10T07:45:27Z")

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## UPDATE

I ended up just changing the erroring double quotes by hand, tedious, BUT EFFECTIVE 🥳

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## ORIGINAL MESSAGE

Hi,

I know that several people have asked this before, but I haven’t managed to fix my notebook with those tips (convert to HTML, re-format JSON etc).

As far as I can see, my notebook starts erroring out on this kind of thing;  
{  
“cell\_type”: “code”,  
“execution\_count”: 6,  
“metadata”: {},  
“outputs”: [],  
“source”: [  
----\>\>\>\>\> “values = pd.read\_sql(con=“postgresql://postgres:@localhost/ass-dev”, sql=“value”)”  
]  
},

Because the string closes out when the double quotes start at con=… I know that a simple solution would be to just change the second string to use single quotes, but I have this type of problem throughout my whole notebook ☹

I’ve added a gist here to look closer at; [https://gist.github.com/webel/73435e13e97118d7d1128bf9f12b1e1d](https://gist.github.com/webel/73435e13e97118d7d1128bf9f12b1e1d)

I’d be very grateful for assistance.

Best, V