 fix: verify jsonlines file in run_translation (#14660)
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation.py b/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation.py
index 0331023ae54cd..f8d326c617061 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/translation/run_translation.py
@@ -216,12 +216,16 @@ def __post_init__(self):
         elif self.source_lang is None or self.target_lang is None:
             raise ValueError("Need to specify the source language and the target language.")
 
+        # accepting both json and jsonl file extensions, as
+        # many jsonlines files actually have a .json extension
+        valid_extensions = ["json", "jsonl"]
+
         if self.train_file is not None:
             extension = self.train_file.split(".")[-1]
-            assert extension == "json", "`train_file` should be a json file."
+            assert extension in valid_extensions, "`train_file` should be a jsonlines file."
         if self.validation_file is not None:
             extension = self.validation_file.split(".")[-1]
-            assert extension == "json", "`validation_file` should be a json file."
+            assert extension in valid_extensions, "`validation_file` should be a jsonlines file."
         if self.val_max_target_length is None:
             self.val_max_target_length = self.max_target_length
 

# What does this PR do?

Fixes #14660 

The documentation and the code everywhere mention jsonlines file except in the actual code where the verification was for json file instead.

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