json.decoder.JSONDecodeError on Windows 10 with Python 3.7.0 32-bit

[clc14]

I get this error when I try to run mech:

mech init bento/ubuntu-14.04
Initializing mech
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\clc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Scripts\mech-script.py", line 11, in
load_entry_point('mech==0.7.6', 'console_scripts', 'mech')()
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\mech_main_.py", line 39, in main
return Mech(arguments)()
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\mech\command.py", line 89, in call
obj = klass(arguments)
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\mech\mech.py", line 572, in init
if utils.init_mechfile(instance_name, url, name=name, version=version, requests_kwargs=requests_kwargs):
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\mech\utils.py", line 471, in init_mechfile
path = index_active_instance(instance_name)
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\mech\utils.py", line 458, in index_active_instance
'path': path,
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\mech\utils.py", line 201, in settle_instance
instances = json.loads(uncomment(fp.read()))
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\json_init_.py", line 348, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "c:\users\clc\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\json\decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 3 (char 4)

[clc14]

Deleted the .mech directory, and now it's working.

But now it creates four different directories with the disk files:

07/07/2018 02:32 PM

13307551143
07/07/2018 02:33 PM 13307551145
07/07/2018 02:33 PM 13307551146
07/07/2018 02:33 PM 13307551147
07/07/2018 02:32 PM boxes
07/07/2018 02:32 PM data

I can get it to work by copying the vmdk's to the 13307551147 folder, where the .vmx file is

[clc14]

python -m tarfile -l vmware_desktop.box
13307551147/Vagrantfile
13307551143/disk-s001.vmdk
13307551145/disk-s002.vmdk
13307551146/disk-s007.vmdk
...
13307551147/disk.vmdk
13307551147/metadata.json
13307551147/ubuntu-14.04-amd64.nvram
13307551147/ubuntu-14.04-amd64.vmsd
13307551147/ubuntu-14.04-amd64.vmx
13307551147/ubuntu-14.04-amd64.vmxf

while running gnu tar -xvf puts them all in the same directory

[clc14]

This is only happening with bento images

[Kronuz]

This is weird, it seems the error comes from reading the index file. Could you please share your ~/.mech/data/index When the error shows.