jsonesque 0.1.1

Normalise and minify JSON-like strings into valid JSON

Overview

jsonesque is a module for processing JSON-like strings into valid, minified JSON. It enables a Python application to support an ‘enhanced’ form of JSON that contains comments and trailing commas.

For example, given the following JSON-like input:

{
    # This is a Python-style comment
    "a": 1,
    // This is a C-style comment
    "b": 2,
    /*
      This is a multi-line C-style comment
    */
    "c": [
        1,
        2,
        3, // This is a trailing comment pointing out a trailing comma
    ],
}

jsonesque would produce the following valid JSON:

{"a":1,"b":2,"c":[1,2,3]}

This could then be passed into json.loads() or similar.

Usage

Currently, jsonesque exposes just a single function called process(). It takes one argument — a JSON-like string — and returns a new string with the aforementioned enhanced features removed. The string is additionally stripped of extra white-space (minified).

To use jsonesque, simply import jsonesque and call process() on your string:

import json, jsonesque

invalid_json = '[1, 2, /* comment */ 3,]'
valid_json   = jsonesque.process(invalid_json) # Yields string: '[1,2,3]'
decoded      = json.loads(valid_json)          # Yields list:   [1, 2, 3]

More information

For the most complete and up-to-date documentation, please refer to the jsonesque GitHub repository: https://github.com/okdana/jsonesque/