How does the function json.load() differ from the function json.loads()?

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The function json.load() reads the JSON data from a file and returns a Python object while the function json.loads() reads JSON data from a string and returns a Python object.

In other words, json.load() is used when you want to read data from a file (using a file object), whereas json.loads() is used when you want to parse a JSON-formatted string.

For example:

import json

# Load JSON data from a file
with open('data.json') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

# Parse JSON-formatted string
json_string = '{"name": "John", "age": 30}'
data = json.loads(json_string)