| pyjson5 |
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| A Python implementation of the JSON5 data format. |
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| `JSON5 <https://github.com/aseemk/json5>`_ extends the |
| `JSON <http://www.json.org>`_ data interchange format to make it |
| slightly more usable as a configuration language: |
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| * JavaScript-style comments (both single and multi-line) are legal. |
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| * Object keys may be unquoted if they are legal ECMAScript identifiers |
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| * Objects and arrays may end with trailing commas. |
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| * Strings can be single-quoted, and multi-line string literals are allowed. |
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| There are a few other more minor extensions to JSON; see the above page for |
| the full details. |
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| This project implements a reader and writer implementation for Python; |
| where possible, it mirrors the |
| `standard Python JSON API <https://docs.python.org/library/json.html>`_ |
| package for ease of use. |
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| This is an early release. It has been reasonably well-tested, but it is |
| *SLOW*. It can be 1000-6000x slower than the C-optimized JSON module, |
| and is 200x slower (or more) than the pure Python JSON module. |
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| Known issues |
| ============ |
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| * The `cls` keyword argument that json.load()/json.loads() accepts to |
| specify a custom subclass of JSONDecoder is not and will not be supported, |
| because this implementation uses a completely different approach and |
| doesn't have anything like the JSONDecoder and JSONEncoder classes. |
