User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) When a Javascript object is turned into a JSON string, functions are filtered out. During this process, an extra comma is then appended to the end of the object in the JSON string. This causes the JSON string to be invalid (See http://json.org/object.gif). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. var myObj = {foo: 123, bar: function () {}}; 2. JSON.stringify(myObj); Actual Results: {"foo":123,} Expected Results: {"foo":123} The invalid JSON cannot be parsed by some implementations of JSON parsers. In my case, python's 2.6 implementation of JSON in the "json" module. Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 3 2009, 20:49:49) [GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import json >>> json.loads('{"foo":123}') {u'foo': 123} >>> json.loads('{"foo":123,}') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 307, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 319, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 336, in raw_decode obj, end = self._scanner.iterscan(s, **kw).next() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/scanner.py", line 55, in iterscan rval, next_pos = action(m, context) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 198, in JSONObject raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting property name", s, end - 1)) ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 11 (char 11) >>>