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this 100% mature and tested function strips C-style comments and trailing commas from a (not-so-valid) JSON
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clean_json.py
import re
def clean_json(payload):
# remove C-style comments
payload = re.sub(re.compile("/\*.*?\*/",re.DOTALL), '', payload)
payload = re.sub(re.compile("//.*?\n" ), '', payload)
# remove trailing commas
payload = re.sub(re.compile(r',\s*?([\]\}])'), r'\1', payload)
return payload
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hatarist commented Aug 9, 2018 •
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In case you found this shit piece of code and missed the sarcasm bit of the "100% mature and tested" phrase above:
Make sure you fucking know what you're doing before you cluelessly use this to solve your problem.
Otherwise you'll end up wasting hours trying to determine why does your precious mega complex json have some fucked-up data.

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