for when jsonl doesn't go right

jsonl_splitter.py

import json


def main():
    inp = open('briefings.jsonl').read()
    out_f = open('briefings.real.jsonl', 'wb')
    start = 0
    cur_token_beg = 0
    end = None
    while start < len(inp):
        end = inp.find('}{', cur_token_beg) + 1 or len(inp)
        try:
            cur_obj = json.loads(inp[start:end])
        except Exception as e:
            cur_token_beg = end
            print e
            import pdb;pdb.set_trace()
            continue
        print 'found an object', cur_obj['title']
        out_f.write(json.dumps(cur_obj, sort_keys=True))
        out_f.write('\n')
        start = cur_token_beg = end


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()