JSON TypeError: expected string or buffer
<p>I'm trying to store an exception error to json. Even though I'm pretty sure I'm storing a string, it's still giving me a typeerror. </p>

<p>Relevant section of code: </p>

<pre><code>except ConnectionError as e:
        s = str(e)
        print type(s)
        data = json.loads({'error message': s})
        print "JSON load succeeded" 
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<p>Traceback:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;type 'str'&gt;

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "[REDACTED]", line 36, in &lt;module&gt;
    ping(SERVERS)
  File "[REDACTED]", line 29, in ping
    data = json.loads({'error message': s})
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\json\__init__.py", line 339, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 364, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
TypeError: expected string or buffer
</code></pre>

<p>This is quite baffling to me. I'd appreciate any help with this matter.</p>