The accepted answer is the easiest one to fix the problem. But in case you are not allowed to install the simplejson due to your company policy, I propose below solution to fix the particular issue of "using comma on the last item in a list":
Create a child class "JSONLintCheck" to inherite from class "JSONDecoder" and override the init method of the class "JSONDecoder" like below:
def __init__(self, encoding=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, strict=True,object_pairs_hook=None)
super(JSONLintCheck,self).__init__(encoding=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, strict=True,object_pairs_hook=None)
self.scan_once = make_scanner(self)
- make_scanner is a new function that used to override the 'scan_once' method of the above class. And here is code for it:</li>
1 #!/usr/bin/env python
2 from json import JSONDecoder
3 from json import decoder
4 import re
5
6 NUMBER_RE = re.compile(
7 r'(-?(?:0|[1-9]\d*))(\.\d+)?([eE][-+]?\d+)?',
8 (re.VERBOSE | re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL))
9
10 def py_make_scanner(context):
11 parse_object = context.parse_object
12 parse_array = context.parse_array
13 parse_string = context.parse_string
14 match_number = NUMBER_RE.match
15 encoding = context.encoding
16 strict = context.strict
17 parse_float = context.parse_float
18 parse_int = context.parse_int
19 parse_constant = context.parse_constant
20 object_hook = context.object_hook
21 object_pairs_hook = context.object_pairs_hook
22
23 def _scan_once(string, idx):
24 try:
25 nextchar = string[idx]
26 except IndexError:
27 raise ValueError(decoder.errmsg("Could not get the next character",string,idx))
28 #raise StopIteration
29
30 if nextchar == '"':
31 return parse_string(string, idx + 1, encoding, strict)
32 elif nextchar == '{':
33 return parse_object((string, idx + 1), encoding, strict,
34 _scan_once, object_hook, object_pairs_hook)
35 elif nextchar == '[':
36 return parse_array((string, idx + 1), _scan_once)
37 elif nextchar == 'n' and string[idx:idx + 4] == 'null':
38 return None, idx + 4
39 elif nextchar == 't' and string[idx:idx + 4] == 'true':
40 return True, idx + 4
41 elif nextchar == 'f' and string[idx:idx + 5] == 'false':
42 return False, idx + 5
43
44 m = match_number(string, idx)
45 if m is not None:
46 integer, frac, exp = m.groups()
47 if frac or exp:
48 res = parse_float(integer + (frac or '') + (exp or ''))
49 else:
50 res = parse_int(integer)
51 return res, m.end()
52 elif nextchar == 'N' and string[idx:idx + 3] == 'NaN':
53 return parse_constant('NaN'), idx + 3
54 elif nextchar == 'I' and string[idx:idx + 8] == 'Infinity':
55 return parse_constant('Infinity'), idx + 8
56 elif nextchar == '-' and string[idx:idx + 9] == '-Infinity':
57 return parse_constant('-Infinity'), idx + 9
58 else:
59 #raise StopIteration # Here is where needs modification
60 raise ValueError(decoder.errmsg("Expecting propert name enclosed in double quotes",string,idx))
61 return _scan_once
62
63 make_scanner = py_make_scanner
- Better put the 'make_scanner' function together with the new child class into a same file.