updates

Author: Terji Petersen

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.0.rst

@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ Other API changes
 - :func:`read_stata` with parameter ``index_col`` set to ``None`` (the default) will now set the index on the returned :class:`DataFrame` to a :class:`RangeIndex` instead of a :class:`Int64Index` (:issue:`49745`)
 - Changed behavior of :class:`Index` constructor with an object-dtype ``numpy.ndarray`` containing all-``bool`` values or all-complex values, this will now retain object dtype, consistent with the :class:`Series` behavior (:issue:`49594`)
 - Changed behavior of :meth:`DataFrame.shift` with ``axis=1``, an integer ``fill_value``, and homogeneous datetime-like dtype, this now fills new columns with integer dtypes instead of casting to datetimelike (:issue:`49842`)
+- Improve handling of file closures in :func:`read_json` (:issue:`49921`)
 - :meth:`DataFrame.values`, :meth:`DataFrame.to_numpy`, :meth:`DataFrame.xs`, :meth:`DataFrame.reindex`, :meth:`DataFrame.fillna`, and :meth:`DataFrame.replace` no longer silently consolidate the underlying arrays; do ``df = df.copy()`` to ensure consolidation (:issue:`49356`)
 -
 

pandas/io/json/_json.py

@@ -750,8 +750,7 @@ def read_json(
 
     if chunksize:
         return json_reader
-
-    with json_reader:
+    else:
         return json_reader.read()
 
 
@@ -964,24 +963,27 @@ def __next__(self: JsonReader[Literal["frame", "series"]]) -> DataFrame | Series
         ...
 
     def __next__(self) -> DataFrame | Series:
-        if self.nrows:
-            if self.nrows_seen >= self.nrows:
-                self.close()
-                raise StopIteration
+        if self.nrows and self.nrows_seen >= self.nrows:
+            self.close()
+            raise StopIteration
 
         lines = list(islice(self.data, self.chunksize))
-        if lines:
+        if not lines:
+            self.close()
+            raise StopIteration
+
+        try:
             lines_json = self._combine_lines(lines)
             obj = self._get_object_parser(lines_json)
 
             # Make sure that the returned objects have the right index.
             obj.index = range(self.nrows_seen, self.nrows_seen + len(obj))
             self.nrows_seen += len(obj)
+        except Exception as ex:
+            self.close()
+            raise ex
 
-            return obj
-
-        self.close()
-        raise StopIteration
+        return obj
 
     def __enter__(self) -> JsonReader[FrameSeriesStrT]:
         return self