eliribble / commentjson

Add JavaScript or Python style comments in JSON.

commentjson

commentjson (Comment JSON) is a Python package that helps you create JSON files with Python and JavaScript style inline comments. Its API is very similar to the Python standard library's json module.

Installation

pip install commentjson

Basic Usage

>>> import commentjson
>>>
>>> json_string = """{
...     "name": "Vaidik Kapoor", # Person's name
...     "location": "Delhi, India", // Person's location
...
...     # Section contains info about
...     // person's appearance
...     "appearance": {
...         "hair_color": "black",
...         "eyes_color": "black",
...         "height": "6"
...     }
... }"""
>>>
>>> json_loaded = commentjson.loads(json_string)
>>> print json_loaded
{u'appearance': {u'eyes_color': u'black', u'hair_color': u'black', u'height': u'6'}, u'name': u'Vaidik Kapoor', u'location': u'Delhi, India'}

Documentation

Complete documentation can be found here.

Tests

python setup.py test

License

See license.