Pythons: "json.loads()" is great - but it is missing an important thing. For each thing found I need to have the LINE NUMBER in the file where it was found. The goal is this: I have a JSON configuration file that I am reading. There are times when the configuration is 'json-syntactically-correct' - but is wrong for the purposes of configuration. Consider, this trivial example representing somebodies name. { "correct" : { "first" : "Fred", "last" : "Flintstone" }, "error" : { "first" : 1234.6789, "last" : "Flintstone" } } In the above both are "syntactically correct" as far as "json.loads" But - the tool using the information wants the "first" field to be a string. Thus it needs to print an error in some reasonable "parser like way" I do not want to print an error message like this: FILENAME: invalid "wrong.first" must be a string, not a number I want to do this instead: FILENAME:LINENUMBER: "wrong.first" must be a string, not a number This example is trivial (a few entries) but the actual use case has hundreds of things and being able to state the filename:linenumber is very helpful There seems to be no way to do this with JSON, or YAML, or TOML I really do not want to write my own parser for these. In effect, for each "string" In the parsed json, I would like to somehow get the line number of the text. Continue reading...
