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How to make comment in JSON file
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| { | |
| "//field": "These 'double quote' 'double quote' are used as comments, because JSON doesnt' allow comment", | |
| "field": {}, | |
| "#another-field": "Another comment", | |
| "another-field": {}, | |
| "/*stuff": "Be careful to use them when you have full control of the content :)", | |
| "stuff": [], | |
| "bla": "bla" | |
| } |
You can create a special key in your JSON Mapquest Directions object to store comments. This key would be ignored by any JSON parsers that don't use it, but it allows you to include notes.
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Hjson, at https://hjson.github.io/, works better for me than JSON5. YMMV.
Its Python module has been maintained more recently and its documentation shows the syntax of multiline comments as well as
#-based comments.