Python can't parse JSON with extra trailing comma

Question

This code:

import json
s = \'{ \"key1\": \"value1\", \"key2\": \"value2\", }\'
json.loads(s)

produces this error in Python 2:

Answer 1

I suspect it doesn't parse because "it's not json", but you could pre-process strings, using regular expression to replace , } with } and , ] with ]