json-comments 0.1.0

Rust-backed JSON comment and trailing comma stripper

json-comments

A Rust-backed JSON comment and trailing comma stripper for Python.

json-comments provides a single, simple utility to clean JSON-like strings before parsing them. It removes C-style (//), block (/* */), and shell-style (#) comments, as well as trailing commas from objects and arrays.

Installation

pip install json-comments

Usage

import json
import json_comments

raw_data = """
{
    "foo": "bar", // c-style comment
    "baz": "qux", # shell-style comment
    "key": "value", /* block comment */
    "number": 123, // trailing comma
}
"""

# Strip comments and commas with `json_comments`
clean_json = json_comments.strip_json(raw_data)

# Parse with a JSON parser (e.g., `json` from the standard library)
data = json.loads(clean_json)
print(data)
# {'foo': 'bar', 'baz': 'qux', 'key': 'value', 'number': 123}

Acknowledgements

This project is a Python wrapper around the json-strip-comments Rust crate (a fork of the original json-comments-rs).

Special thanks to:

• tmccombs for the original json-comments-rs.
• The oxc-project for the json-strip-comments fork.

License

MIT. See LICENSE for details including upstream copyright notices.