Occurs when passing a Python object (like a dict) directly to json.loads() instead of a JSON string.
import json
data = {"name": "john", "age": 30}
# Error: Passing a dict directly
result = json.loads(data)
print(result)TypeError: the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, not dict
import json
data = {"name": "john", "age": 30}
# Convert dict to JSON string first
json_str = json.dumps(data)
result = json.loads(json_str)
print(result)Tried to load the data directly as JSON, but it turned out I was passing a Python dictionary instead of a JSON-formatted string.