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It's possible to have an extremely simple standard-conformant JSON parser!
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conformant_json_parser.py
# RFC 7159 § 9
# "An implementation may set limits on the size of texts that it accepts."
def parse_json(text):
if len(text) != 1:
raise ValueError("Only accepts single character JSON values")
return int(text[0])
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