Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes

[moogyd at yahoo.co.uk]

On Friday, 12 October 2012 16:09:14 UTC+2, (unknown)  wrote:
> Hi,
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> I need to define some configuration in a file that will be manually created.
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> Internally, the data will be stored as a dict, which contains various properties related to a design
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> e.g. Design Name, dependencies, lists of files (and associated libraries).
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> json seemed a quick an easy way of achieving this
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> Anyway, in simple terms my question - if I know everything is a string, how can I omit the quotation marks?
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> i.e. I can do
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> >>> json.loads('{"mykey":["data0", "data1"]}')
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> {u'mykey': [u'data0', u'data1']}
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> But I would like to do
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> >>> json.loads('{mykey:[data0, data1]}')
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
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> The problem is that I don't want to make users have to type redundant characters.
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> Is it possible?
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> Thanks,
> 
> Steven

Hi,
Thanks to everyone for the responses. I'll look at YAML and ConfigParser.
Steven