Jiter (via) One of the challenges in dealing with LLM streaming APIs is the need to parse partial JSON - until the stream has ended you won't have a complete valid JSON object, but you may want to display components of that JSON as they become available.
I've solved this previously using the ijson streaming JSON library, see my previous TIL.
Today I found out about Jiter, a new option from the team behind Pydantic. It's written in Rust and extracted from pydantic-core, so the Python wrapper for it can be installed using:
pip install jiter
You can feed it an incomplete JSON bytes object and use partial_mode="on"
to parse the valid subset:
import jiter partial_json = b'{"name": "John", "age": 30, "city": "New Yor' jiter.from_json(partial_json, partial_mode="on") # {'name': 'John', 'age': 30}
Or use partial_mode="trailing-strings"
to include incomplete string fields too:
jiter.from_json(partial_json, partial_mode="trailing-strings") # {'name': 'John', 'age': 30, 'city': 'New Yor'}
The current README was a little thin, so I submiitted a PR with some extra examples. I got some help from files-to-prompt
and Claude 3.5 Sonnet):
cd crates/jiter-python/ && files-to-prompt -c README.md tests | llm -m claude-3.5-sonnet --system 'write a new README with comprehensive documentation'
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