On 30/11/2018 23:40, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>: >> Maybe someone can convince me I'm misusing JSON but I often want to >> write out a file containing multiple records, and it's convenient to >> use JSON to represent the record data. >> >> The obvious way to read a JSON doc from a file is with "json.load(f)" >> where f is a file handle. Unfortunately, this throws an exception > > I have this "multi-JSON" need quite often. In particular, I exchange > JSON-encoded messages over byte stream connections. There are many ways > of doing it. Having rejected different options (<URL: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_streaming>), I settled with > terminating each JSON value with an ASCII NUL character, which is > illegal in JSON proper.
FWIW, YAML supports multiple documents in one stream (separated by ---) If you just want multiple JSON objects in a file (without any streaming needs), you can just use a JSON array... > >> I also recommend the following article to those not aware of how badly >> designed JSON is: http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php > > JSON is not ideal, but compared with XML, it's a godsend. > > What would be ideal? I think S-expressions would come close, but people > can mess up even them: <URL: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2693.txt>. > > > Marko > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
