+#
+# Unfortunately JSON standard does not include comments, but this is a quite
+# useful feature to have on regressions tests
+#
+
+_token_res = [
+ r'//[^\r\n]*', # comment
+ r'"[^"\\]*(\\.[^"\\]*)*"', # string
+]
+
+_tokens_re = re.compile(r'|'.join(['(' + token_re + ')' for token_re in _token_res]), re.DOTALL)
+
+
+def _strip_comment(mo):
+ if mo.group(1):
+ return ''
+ else:
+ return mo.group(0)
+
+
+def _strip_comments(data):
+ '''Strip (non-standard) JSON comments.'''
+ return _tokens_re.sub(_strip_comment, data)
+
+
+assert _strip_comments('''// a comment
+"// a comment in a string
+"''') == '''
+"// a comment in a string
+"'''
+
+
+def load(stream, strip_images = True, strip_comments = True):
+ if strip_images: