# spacepy.datamodel.readJSONMetadata

`spacepy.datamodel.``readJSONMetadata`(fname, **kwargs)

  Read JSON metadata from an ASCII data file

  Parameters: | fname : str Filename to read metadata from
  Returns: | mdata: spacepy.datamodel.SpaceData SpaceData with the metadata from the file
  Other Parameters:
  | verbose : bool (optional) set verbose output so metadata tree prints on read (default False)