| pyjson5 |
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| A Python implementation of the JSON5 data format. |
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| `JSON5 <https://www.json5.org>`_ extends the `JSON <http://www.json.org>`_ |
| data interchange format to make it 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 pages for |
| the full details. |
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| This project implements a reader and writer implementation for Python; |
| mirroring the |
| `standard JSON package <https://docs.python.org/library/json.html>`_'s API. |
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| Known issues |
| ============ |
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| This is an early release. It has been well-tested and is feature-complete |
| (it implements the full JSON spec including proper handling of Unicode |
| identifiers, unlike even the reference JavaScript implementation), 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. |
