/util/parse.py

parse.py

import re, json, codecs


def parse_json(filename):
	with open(filename, 'r+') as f:
		comment_re = re.compile('(^)?[^\S\n]*/(?:\*(.*?)\*/[^\S\n]*|/[^\n]*)($)?', re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE)
		content = f.read()
		match = comment_re.search(content)
		while match:
			content = content[:match.start()] + content[match.end():]
			match = comment_re.search(content)
		global f, contents, data
		reader = codecs.getreader("utf-8")
		contents = json.load(content).decode("utf-8")
		parse_json.data = contents["data"][0]
		return()

	if 'data' not in content:
	# Backwards compatible with old config.json files
		contents = {'data': [contents]}
		data = contents["data"][0]