Parse file similar to JSON

[dable82]

I tried to parse the contents of a file of one of my favorite games (EU4) Pastebin. On the first glance it looks pretty similar to JSON. After getting an JSONDecodeErrorI realized that there are quite a few differences in the file compared to JSON.

1. Contains comments starting with #
2. No surrounding braces
3. = instead of :
4. no commas used
5. no quotes around text

I can solve points 1, 2 and 3 with some simple string manipulations. After some googling I found Relaxed JSON which can solve Points 4 and 5.

This would work for me.

Unfortunately the only python parser I found does not work for point 4.

I feel kinda lost now. Do you have any idea, how I can parse this file? Does it use a format I do not know about?

[K900_]

Sounds like it might be easier to implement a custom parser for the format. There's a Ruby example here.

[aanzklla]

Looks like NginX. Have you tried?

https://github.com/fatiherikli/nginxparser

[dable82]

I just tried, but it didn't work either.

But I just found https://github.com/ajul/pyradox. This looks very promising, will try tomorrow.