commentjson

commentjson (Comment JSON) is a Python package that helps you create JSON files with comments. Its API is very similar to the Python standard library's json module.

Installation

pip install commentjson

Basic Usage

>>> import commentjson
>>>
>>> json_string = """{
...     "name": "Vaidik Kapoor", # Person's name
...     "location": "Delhi, India",
...
...     # Section contains info about person's appearance
...     "appearance": {
...         "hair_color": "black",
...         "eyes_color": "black",
...         "height": "6"
...     }
... }"""
>>>
>>> json_loaded = commentjson.loads(json_string)
>>> print json_loaded
{u'appearance': {u'eyes_color': u'black', u'hair_color': u'black', u'height': u'6'}, u'name': u'Vaidik Kapoor', u'location': u'Delhi, India'}

Documentation

Complete documentation can be found here.

Tests

python setup.py test