On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
JSON5 supports comments in JSON.
https://github.com/json5/json5/issues/3

and other nifty things -- any plans to support JSON5 in the stdlib json library? I think that would be great.

-CHB


 
... Some form of schema is necessary to avoid having to try parsing every string value as a date time (and to specify precision: "2018" is not the same as "2018 00:00:01")

On Friday, November 2, 2018, Chris Barker via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:31 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:
Serialization of those data types is not defined in the JSON standard:

https://www.json.org/

That being said, ISO 8601 is a standard for datetime stamps, and a defacto one for JSON

So building encoding of datetime into Python's json encoder would be pretty useful.

(I would not have any automatic decoding though -- as an ISO8601 string would still be just a string in JSON)

Could we have a "pedantic" mode for "fully standard conforming" JSON, and then add some extensions to the standard?

As another example, I would find it very handy if the json decoder would respect comments in JSON (I know that they are explicitly not part of the standard), but they are used in other applications, particularly when JSON is used as a configuration language.

-CHB


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