Can json.loads ignore trailing commas?

Question

As mentioned in this StackOverflow question, you are not allowed to have any trailing commas in json. For example, this

{     "key1": "value1",     "key2": "value2" } 

is fine, but this

{     "key1": "value1",     "key2": "value2", } 

is invalid syntax.

For reasons mentioned in this other StackOverflow question, using a trailing comma is legal (and perhaps encouraged?) in Python code. I am working with both Python and JSON, so I would love to be able to be consistent across both types of files. Is there a way to have json.loads ignore trailing commas?

Answer 1

Strip the commas before you pass the value in.

import re  def clean_json(string):     string = re.sub(",[ \t\r\n]+}", "}", string)     string = re.sub(",[ \t\r\n]+\]", "]", string)      return string