[Web-SIG] Time a for JSON parser in the standard library?

[Ian Bicking]

Alan Kennedy wrote:
> [John]
>>  Sounds like a case *for* strict parsing, in my opinion. PHP's loose
>>  parsing made it difficult to figure out why the JSON was invalid. If
>>  trailing comma handling is to try to work around copy-paste errors, -1
>>  from me.
> 
> No, the PHP lib did exactly what it should, IMHO. The PHP lib was
> liberal in what it consumed (a dangling comma), and strict in what it
> produced (no dangling comma).
> 
> It accepted my broken document with a dangling-comma, and emitted a
> strictly conformant document with the offending comma removed, which
> enabled my co-worker to proceed with his job.

I prefer liberal, with an option to turn on warnings or be strict. 
Potentially warnings could be turned on by default, and turned off with 
the warnings module.  (Is there a way to have a warning raise an 
exception by default?  I only know of the command-line option to the 
interpreter.)

   Ian