Matt Nordhoff wrote: > gert wrote: >> On Jan 25, 11:16 pm, Дамјан Георгиевски <gdam...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting property name", s, end)) >>>> http://docs.python.org/library/json.html >>>> What am I doing wrong ? >>> try this >>> v = json.loads('{"test":"test"}') >>> >>> JSON doesn't support single quotes, only double quotes. >> the funny part is when you print(v) you get >> {'test': 'test'} >> >> Single quotes works in every browser that support json so i >> recommended python should support it too, besides it looks much >> cleaner >> {'test': 'test'} >> {"test": "test"} >> >> It can not be that hard to support both notation can it ? > > There's a difference between JavaScript source code and JSON. AFAICT > from the source [1], Mozilla's JSON parser doesn't accept single quotes. > > [1] <http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/json.cpp>
By the way, I forgot to add, according to the ECMA-262 standard (page 18, section 7.8.4) [1], ECMAScript string literals can use either double or single quotes, so that's not a browser-specific extension. [1] <http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf> (<http://xrl.us/bedr3c>) -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list