ValueError from url to json

url2json.py

import json
import re
import urllib

someUrl = '...'
f = urllib.urlopen(someUrl)
try:
  myDict = json.load(f)
except ValueError:
  #  ValueError: Invalid control character at: line xxx column yyy (char zzz)
  try:
    myDict = json.loads(re.sub(re.compile('\s+'), '', urllib.urlopen(someUrl).read()))
  except ValueError:
    pass