On 2024-09-30, Left Right via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > Whether and to what degree you can stream JSON depends on JSON > structure. In general, however, JSON cannot be streamed (but commonly > it can be). > > Imagine a pathological case of this shape: 1... <60GB of digits>. This > is still a valid JSON (it doesn't have any limits on how many digits a > number can have). And you cannot parse this number in a streaming way > because in order to do that, you need to start with the least > significant digit.
Which is how arabic numbers were originally parsed, but when westerners adopted them from a R->L written language, thet didn't flip them around to match the L->R written language into which they were being adopted. So now long numbers can't be parsed as a stream in software. They should have anticipated this problem back in the 13th century and flipped the numbers around. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
