🔒 Parse JS-stringified JSON

[quasi parcel]

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[round rune]

Sigh

Basically, I have this file that I need to parse in JS. How do I parse the string into a Python object?

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/R34Q

Here's the file

I can use removeprefix and removesuffix to get rid of window.APP_BOOTSTRAP = and the ending ;

But how do I actually parse the JS stringified object

[solid sparrow]

U can maybe try the json module in python

[round rune]

Doesn't work

[hard sable]

Use ast.literal_eval to get the string from its stringified representation

then pass that to json.loads

[round rune]

I actually tried that, but it throws SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

[hard sable]

It appears to just work for me. Can you show your code?

Also, that's a Python syntax error. How?

[round rune]

Just a second

Ohh

Found the error

I was stripping the " from the string ends

For literal_eval to work, I needed to retain that

Fixed

Thanks

[gray veldt]

!paste

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[gray veldt]

Bro here's the fix:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/VAGA

What I did 🗿:
I copied all the code to vscode, searched for backslash, replace all backslashes with empty string and formatted the file. Here's your coffee ☕.

!close

[hard sable]

They wanted a general way to deal with input like this. Manually doing the replacement in a text editor doesn't cut it.

Also, you can't close someone else's thread, I'm pretty sure.

[gray veldt]

Then Use Regex

[hard sable]

It's already been solved before you. The correct solution is to use something that can parse string literal representations, like ast.literal_eval.

[gray veldt]

The only problem for me is that lets the interpreter know that # exists in the string. But it detects it as a comment and I don't want to escape the string of my own because the algorithm should be dynamic (my style of writing)

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