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

Another option is to parse it as YAML; YAML accepts valid JSON but also accepts all sorts of variations.

import yaml
s = '{ "key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", }'
yaml.load(s)