How to parse json file with c-style comments?

Question

I have a json file, such as the following:

    { 
       \"author\":\"John\",
       \"desc\": \"If it is important to decode all valid JSON correctly \\ 
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Answer 1

How about commentjson?

http://commentjson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This can parse something like below.

{
    "name": "Vaidik Kapoor", # Person's name
    "location": "Delhi, India", // Person's location

    # Section contains info about
    // person's appearance
    "appearance": {
        "hair_color": "black",
        "eyes_color": "black",
        "height": "6"
    }
}

Likely elasticsearch, some products' REST API do not accept comment field. Therefore, I think comment inside json is necessary for a client in order to maintain such as a json template.

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EDITED

jsmin seems to be more common.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsmin

• references
  • https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaGSr
  • Can comments be used in JSON?
  • https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-write-comments-inside-a-JSON-document
  • https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/webstorm/191.6183.63/json/src/com/intellij/json/JsonBundle.properties#L16