Victor Hooi <victorhooi at gmail.com> writes: > My question, is there a more lenient, or relaxed JSON parser available > for Python, that will try to do a best-efforts parsing of non-spec > JSON? In an answer to a similar question on StackExchange, using YAML was suggested. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9104930 Is it possible that this format is in fact YAML? It does have the spaces after each colon as mentioned in a comment, and it seems more likely to me than that a major package like MongoDB aimed for JSON and missed.