In article <mailman.2347.1369826248.3114.python-l...@python.org>, Jabba Laci <jabba.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a growing JSON file that I edit manually and it might happen > that I repeat a key. If this happens, I would like to get notified.
The real answer here is that JSON is probably not the best choice for large files that get hand-edited. For data that you intend to hand-edit a lot, YAML might be a better choice. > Currently the value of the second key silently overwrites the value of > the first. Yeah, that's what I would expect. http://www.json.org/ is mute on the question of what to do with duplicate keys, but I would be quite surprised to discover any implementation which behaved differently. > Do you know about a command line JSON validator? All JSON implementations validate their input. You are assuming that having duplicate keys is "invalid". I would think it falls more into the category of "undefined behavior". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
