Should read_json() work when file contents uses single quotes?

[stxue1]

The JSON standard requires double quotes for strings and single quotes are disallowed. However, python tends to output certain values with single quotes. For example:

>>> a = ["hello"]
>>> print(a)
['hello']
>>> import json
>>> json.loads(a)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
    raise TypeError(f'the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, '
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, not list
>>> json.loads('["hello"]') # needs to be double quoted
['hello']

There is a unit test that depends on this behavior; it tries to take the python stringified output into the read_json() standard library function. However, the command section will output ['key1', 'key2'], which uses single quotes, meaning this is not valid JSON and failing the unit test.