Pandas lines kwarg in pd.read_json

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

    with open("clean.json", "r+") as data:
        df = pd.read_json(path_or_buf=data, lines=True)

Problem description

In the documentation, lines is a kwarg that can be used to specify whether the JSON file has multiple lines. This code worked a month ago, where df was a dataframe where each entry was a line of clean.json.

Output

Instead, I get TypeError: read_json() got an unexpected keyword argument 'lines'

Comment From: jreback

you should check your version of pandas, lines was added in 0.19.0, I would guess that you now using an older version.

further you can simply use pd.read_json(path, lines=True), no need to open the file.