code: def read_json(file_or_path):
      
      try:
          with (open(file_or_path, 'r') if isinstance(file_or_path, (str, bytes)) else file_or_path) as f:
              obj = json.load(f)
      except IOError:
          obj = json.loads(file_or_path)
      return obj
docs: Parse json contents of string or file object or file path and return python nested dict/lists