JavaScript Object to JSON using python

Question

I'm trying to retrieve what initially looked like a normal JSON from a website. But it is a JavaScript object which is not a valid JSON. Is there a way to convert this string to JSON using python?

Example would be:

{
 firstName:"John",
 lastName:"Doe",
 age:50,
 eyeColor:"blue",
 dimensions:[
     {
      height: "2",
      width: "1"
     }
]
}

Answer 1

Use a parser with a non-strict mode that can handle such input. I've been recommending demjson for stuff like this, since it's the first viable candidate that came up when I searched for python non-strict json parser.

>>> demjson.decode("""{
...  firstName:"John",
...  lastName:"Doe",
...  age:50,
...  eyeColor:"blue",
...  dimensions:[
...      {
...       height: "2",
...       width: "1"
...      }
... ]
... }""")
{u'eyeColor': u'blue', u'lastName': u'Doe', u'age': 50, u'dimensions': [{u'width
': u'1', u'height': u'2'}], u'firstName': u'John'}