On May 29, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Jabba Laci wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Thanks but how would it be different with YAML? Can YAML check duplicate keys?

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that.  I was just pointing out that in general, YAML 
is more friendly for hand-editing than JSON.  They both have the same GIGO 
issue.

> How to process (read) YAML files in Python?

Take a look at http://pyyaml.org/


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