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

[Bob Ippolito]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:04 PM, John Millikin <jmillikin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>  >  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.)
>  >
>  I forgot about the warnings module.
>
>  For "exception by default" behavior, the library can call
>  warnings.simplefilter ("error", JSONWarning) on initialization. Then
>  we just define various subclasses of JSONWarning for the different
>  warning types (trailing comma, illegal whitespace, NaN etc). If users
>  want to ignore some or all of the warnings, they can specify which (or
>  all). Best of all, it wouldn't require long parameter lists.

That sounds like a really bad idea, if there is an option to change
the behavior it shouldn't live in module state.

-bob