Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:08:35 +0100, I V wrote: > >> For something with at least a vague air of credibility to it, somebody >> who appears to be a Mozilla developer comments on their bug tracker, >> that sessionstore.js isn't "pure JSON" (though he only identifies the >> parantheses, which are much easier to fix, as being a problem): >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407110#c2 > > Ah, fantastic! Or rather, damn, I was hoping it was proper JSON and not > some sort of bizarre mutant. > > For what it's worth, removing the leading/trailing parentheses gives a > different error:
<snip traceback> > Presumably that's the error you get when you don't quote your property > names properly. That bug is about changing it *to* JSON-plus-parentheses. The patch landed [1] (and was subsequently backed out [2] and landed again [3]) in time for Firefox 3.5, but unless you're running that, it's still JavaScript source code, generated by toSource() [4]: <http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/743136ef83d9/browser/components/sessionstore/src/nsSessionStore.js#l2221> (<http://xrl.us/beqbpo>) [1] <http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/10c21d116e5d> [2] <http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/04c360f123e5> [3] <http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/22074494eef3> [4] <https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Function/ToSource> (<http://xrl.us/beqbo7>) -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
