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+r"""
+Using simplejson from the shell to validate and
+pretty-print::
+
+ $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -msimplejson
+ {
+ "json": "obj"
+ }
+ $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -msimplejson
+ Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
+
+Note that the JSON produced by this module's default settings
+is a subset of YAML, so it may be used as a serializer for that as well.
+"""
+import simplejson
+
+#
+# Pretty printer:
+# curl http://mochikit.com/examples/ajax_tables/domains.json | python -msimplejson.tool
+#
+
+def main():
+ import sys
+ if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+ infile = sys.stdin
+ outfile = sys.stdout
+ elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
+ infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
+ outfile = sys.stdout
+ elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
+ infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
+ outfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'wb')
+ else:
+ raise SystemExit("%s [infile [outfile]]" % (sys.argv[0],))
+ try:
+ obj = simplejson.load(infile)
+ except ValueError, e:
+ raise SystemExit(e)
+ simplejson.dump(obj, outfile, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+ outfile.write('\n')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ main()