why not just use function like loadJSONFile

[potehinre]

def load_json_file(path):
     	path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),path)
	with open(path, 'r') as f:
		data = f.read()
	return json.loads(data)

https://github.com/GenesisKernel/genesis-tests/blob/6f57ca7ef9dc460cf469ac3643267cc076480d3f/config.py#L5