Add the 'json' package. Code taken from simplejson 1.9 and contributed by Bob

Ippolito.

Closes issue #2750.

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diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,431 @@
+:mod:`json` JSON encoder and decoder
+====================================
+
+.. module:: json
+   :synopsis: encode and decode the JSON format
+.. moduleauthor:: Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>
+.. sectionauthor:: Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>
+.. versionadded:: 2.6
+
+JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) <http://json.org> is a subset of JavaScript
+syntax (ECMA-262 3rd edition) used as a lightweight data interchange format.
+
+:mod:`json` exposes an API familiar to uses of the standard library marshal and
+pickle modules.
+
+Encoding basic Python object hierarchies::
+    
+    >>> import json
+    >>> json.dumps(['foo', {'bar': ('baz', None, 1.0, 2)}])
+    '["foo", {"bar": ["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]'
+    >>> print json.dumps("\"foo\bar")
+    "\"foo\bar"
+    >>> print json.dumps(u'\u1234')
+    "\u1234"
+    >>> print json.dumps('\\')
+    "\\"
+    >>> print json.dumps({"c": 0, "b": 0, "a": 0}, sort_keys=True)
+    {"a": 0, "b": 0, "c": 0}
+    >>> from StringIO import StringIO
+    >>> io = StringIO()
+    >>> json.dump(['streaming API'], io)
+    >>> io.getvalue()
+    '["streaming API"]'
+
+Compact encoding::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> json.dumps([1,2,3,{'4': 5, '6': 7}], separators=(',',':'))
+    '[1,2,3,{"4":5,"6":7}]'
+
+Pretty printing::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> print json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+    {
+        "4": 5, 
+        "6": 7
+    }
+
+Decoding JSON::
+    
+    >>> import json
+    >>> json.loads('["foo", {"bar":["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]')
+    [u'foo', {u'bar': [u'baz', None, 1.0, 2]}]
+    >>> json.loads('"\\"foo\\bar"')
+    u'"foo\x08ar'
+    >>> from StringIO import StringIO
+    >>> io = StringIO('["streaming API"]')
+    >>> json.load(io)
+    [u'streaming API']
+
+Specializing JSON object decoding::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> def as_complex(dct):
+    ...     if '__complex__' in dct:
+    ...         return complex(dct['real'], dct['imag'])
+    ...     return dct
+    ... 
+    >>> json.loads('{"__complex__": true, "real": 1, "imag": 2}',
+    ...     object_hook=as_complex)
+    (1+2j)
+    >>> import decimal
+    >>> json.loads('1.1', parse_float=decimal.Decimal)
+    Decimal('1.1')
+
+Extending JSONEncoder::
+    
+    >>> import json
+    >>> class ComplexEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
+    ...     def default(self, obj):
+    ...         if isinstance(obj, complex):
+    ...             return [obj.real, obj.imag]
+    ...         return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
+    ... 
+    >>> dumps(2 + 1j, cls=ComplexEncoder)
+    '[2.0, 1.0]'
+    >>> ComplexEncoder().encode(2 + 1j)
+    '[2.0, 1.0]'
+    >>> list(ComplexEncoder().iterencode(2 + 1j))
+    ['[', '2.0', ', ', '1.0', ']']
+    
+
+.. highlight:: none
+
+Using json.tool from the shell to validate and pretty-print::
+    
+    $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -mjson.tool
+    {
+        "json": "obj"
+    }
+    $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -mjson.tool
+    Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
+
+.. highlight:: python
+
+.. note:: 
+
+   Note that the JSON produced by this module's default settings is a subset of
+   YAML, so it may be used as a serializer for that as well.
+
+
+Basic Usage
+-----------
+
+.. function:: dump(obj, fp[, skipkeys[, ensure_ascii[, check_circular[, allow_nan[, cls[, indent[, separators[, encoding[, default[, **kw]]]]]]]]]])
+
+    Serialize *obj* as a JSON formatted stream to *fp* (a
+    ``.write()``-supporting file-like object).
+
+    If *skipkeys* is ``True`` (It is ``False`` by default.), then ``dict`` keys
+    that are not basic types (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``long``,
+    ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be skipped instead of raising a
+    :exc:`TypeError`.
+
+    If *ensure_ascii* is ``False`` (It is ``True`` by default.), then the some
+    chunks written to *fp* may be ``unicode`` instances, subject to normal
+    Python ``str`` to ``unicode`` coercion rules. Unless ``fp.write()``
+    explicitly understands ``unicode`` (as in ``codecs.getwriter()``) this is
+    likely to cause an error.
+
+    If *check_circular* is ``False``, then the circular reference check for
+    container types will be skipped and a circular reference will result in an
+    :exc:`OverflowError` (or worse).
+
+    If *allow_nan* is ``False``, then it will be a :exc:`ValueError` to
+    serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``) in
+    strict compliance of the JSON specification, instead of using the JavaScript
+    equivalents (``NaN``, ``Infinity``, ``-Infinity``).
+
+    If *indent* is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and object
+    members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level of 0
+    will only insert newlines. ``None`` is the most compact representation.
+
+    If *separators* is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple then it
+    will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators.  ``(',',
+    ':')`` is the most compact JSON representation.
+
+    *encoding* is the character encoding for str instances, default is UTF-8.
+
+    *default(obj)* is a function that should return a serializable version of
+    obj or raise :exc:`TypeError`. The default simply raises :exc:`TypeError`.
+
+    To use a custom :class:`JSONEncoder`` subclass (e.g. one that overrides the
+    ``.default()`` method to serialize additional types), specify it with the
+    *cls* kwarg.
+
+
+.. function:: dump(obj[, skipkeys[, ensure_ascii[, check_circular[, allow_nan[, cls[, indent[, separators[, encoding[, default[, **kw]]]]]]]]]])
+
+    Serialize *obj* to a JSON formatted ``str``.
+
+    If *skipkeys* is ``True`` (It is ``False`` by default.), then ``dict`` keys
+    that are not basic types (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``long``,
+    ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be skipped instead of raising a
+    :exc:`TypeError`.
+
+    If *ensure_ascii* is ``False``, then the return value will be a ``unicode``
+    instance subject to normal Python ``str`` to ``unicode`` coercion rules
+    instead of being escaped to an ASCII ``str``.
+
+    If *check_circular* is ``False``, then the circular reference check for
+    container types will be skipped and a circular reference will result in an
+    :exc:`OverflowError` (or worse).
+
+    If *allow_nan* is ``False``, then it will be a :exc:`ValueError` to
+    serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``) in
+    strict compliance of the JSON specification, instead of using the JavaScript
+    equivalents (``NaN``, ``Infinity``, ``-Infinity``).
+
+    If *indent* is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and object
+    members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level of 0
+    will only insert newlines. ``None`` is the most compact representation.
+
+    If *separators* is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple then it
+    will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators.  ``(',',
+    ':')`` is the most compact JSON representation.
+
+    *encoding* is the character encoding for str instances, default is UTF-8.
+
+    *default(obj)* is a function that should return a serializable version of
+    obj or raise :exc:`TypeError`. The default simply raises :exc:`TypeError`.
+
+    To use a custom :class:`JSONEncoder`` subclass (e.g. one that overrides the
+    ``.default()`` method to serialize additional types), specify it with the
+    *cls* kwarg.
+
+
+.. function loads(s[, encoding[, cls[, object_hook[, parse_float[, parse_int[, parse_constant[, **kw]]]]]]])
+
+   Deserialize *s* (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` instance containing a JSON
+   document) to a Python object.
+
+   If *s* is a ``str`` instance and is encoded with an ASCII based encoding
+   other than utf-8 (e.g. latin-1) then an appropriate ``encoding`` name must be
+   specified. Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2) are not allowed
+   and should be decoded to ``unicode`` first.
+
+   *object_hook* is an optional function that will be called with the result of
+   any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of ``object_hook``
+   will be used instead of the ``dict``. This feature can be used to implement
+   custom decoders (e.g. JSON-RPC class hinting).
+
+   *parse_float*, if specified, will be called with the string of every JSON
+   float to be decoded. By default, this is equivalent to
+   ``float(num_str)``. This can be used to use another datatype or parser for
+   JSON floats (e.g. decimal.Decimal).
+
+   *parse_int*, if specified, will be called with the string of every JSON int
+   to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to int(num_str). This can be
+   used to use another datatype or parser for JSON integers (e.g. float).
+
+   *parse_constant*, if specified, will be called with one of the following
+   strings: -Infinity, Infinity, NaN, null, true, false.  This can be used to
+   raise an exception if invalid JSON numbers are encountered.
+
+   To use a custom :class:`JSONDecoder` subclass, specify it with the ``cls``
+   kwarg. Additional keyword arguments will be passed to the constructor of the
+   class.
+
+
+.. function load(fp[, encoding[, cls[, object_hook[, parse_float[, parse_int[, parse_constant[, **kw]]]]]]])
+
+   Deserialize *fp* (a ``.read()``-supporting file-like object containing a JSON
+   document) to a Python object.
+
+   If the contents of *fp* is encoded with an ASCII based encoding other than
+   utf-8 (e.g. latin-1), then an appropriate ``encoding`` name must be
+   specified. Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2) are not
+   allowed, and should be wrapped with :func:`codecs.getreader(fp)(encoding)`,
+   or simply decoded to a ``unicode`` object and passed to ``loads()``
+
+   *object_hook* is an optional function that will be called with the result of
+   any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of *object_hook*
+   will be used instead of the ``dict``. This feature can be used to implement
+   custom decoders (e.g. JSON-RPC class hinting).
+
+   To use a custom :class:`JSONDecoder` subclass, specify it with the ``cls``
+   kwarg. Additional keyword arguments will be passed to the constructor of the
+   class.
+
+
+Encoders and decoders
+---------------------
+
+.. class:: JSONDecoder([encoding[, object_hook[, parse_float[, parse_int[, parse_constant[, strict]]]]]])
+
+   Simple JSON decoder
+
+   Performs the following translations in decoding by default:
+
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+   | JSON          | Python            |
+   +===============+===================+
+   | object        | dict              |
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+   | array         | list              |
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+   | string        | unicode           |
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+   | number (int)  | int, long         |
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+   | number (real) | float             |
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+   | true          | True              |
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+   | false         | False             |
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+   | null          | None              |
+   +---------------+-------------------+
+
+   It also understands ``NaN``, ``Infinity``, and ``-Infinity`` as their
+   corresponding ``float`` values, which is outside the JSON spec.
+
+   *encoding* determines the encoding used to interpret any ``str`` objects
+   decoded by this instance (utf-8 by default).  It has no effect when decoding
+   ``unicode`` objects.
+
+   Note that currently only encodings that are a superset of ASCII work,
+   strings of other encodings should be passed in as ``unicode``.
+
+   *object_hook*, if specified, will be called with the result of every JSON
+   object decoded and its return value will be used in place of the given
+   ``dict``.  This can be used to provide custom deserializations (e.g. to
+   support JSON-RPC class hinting).
+
+   *parse_float*, if specified, will be called with the string of every JSON
+   float to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to float(num_str). This
+   can be used to use another datatype or parser for JSON floats
+   (e.g. decimal.Decimal).
+
+   *parse_int*, if specified, will be called with the string of every JSON int
+   to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to int(num_str). This can be
+   used to use another datatype or parser for JSON integers (e.g. float).
+
+   *parse_constant*, if specified, will be called with one of the following
+   strings: -Infinity, Infinity, NaN, null, true, false.  This can be used to
+   raise an exception if invalid JSON numbers are encountered.
+
+
+   .. method:: decode(s)
+
+   Return the Python representation of *s* (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` instance
+   containing a JSON document)
+
+   .. method:: raw_decode(s)
+
+   Decode a JSON document from *s* (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` beginning with a
+   JSON document) and return a 2-tuple of the Python representation and the
+   index in *s* where the document ended.
+
+   This can be used to decode a JSON document from a string that may have
+   extraneous data at the end.
+
+
+.. class:: JSONEncoder([skipkeys[, ensure_ascii[, check_circular[, allow_nan[, sort_keys[, indent[, separators[, encoding[, default]]]]]]]]])
+
+   Extensible JSON <http://json.org> encoder for Python data structures.
+
+   Supports the following objects and types by default:
+
+   +-------------------+---------------+
+   | Python            | JSON          |
+   +===================+===============+
+   | dict              | object        |
+   +-------------------+---------------+
+   | list, tuple       | array         |
+   +-------------------+---------------+
+   | str, unicode      | string        |
+   +-------------------+---------------+
+   | int, long, float  | number        |
+   +-------------------+---------------+
+   | True              | true          |
+   +-------------------+---------------+
+   | False             | false         |
+   +-------------------+---------------+
+   | None              | null          |
+   +-------------------+---------------+
+
+   To extend this to recognize other objects, subclass and implement a
+   ``.default()`` method with another method that returns a serializable object
+   for ``o`` if possible, otherwise it should call the superclass implementation
+   (to raise :exc:`TypeError`).
+
+   If *skipkeys* is ``False`` (the default), then it is a :exc:`TypeError` to
+   attempt encoding of keys that are not str, int, long, float or None.  If
+   *skipkeys* is ``True``, such items are simply skipped.
+
+   If *ensure_ascii* is ``True``, the output is guaranteed to be ``str`` objects
+   with all incoming unicode characters escaped.  If *ensure_ascii* is
+   ``False``, the output will be unicode object.
+
+   If *check_circular* is ``True`` (the default), then lists, dicts, and custom
+   encoded objects will be checked for circular references during encoding to
+   prevent an infinite recursion (which would cause an :exc:`OverflowError`).
+   Otherwise, no such check takes place.
+
+   If *allow_nan* is ``True`` (the default), then ``NaN``, ``Infinity``, and ``-Infinity``
+   will be encoded as such.  This behavior is not JSON specification compliant,
+   but is consistent with most JavaScript based encoders and decoders.
+   Otherwise, it will be a :exc:`ValueError` to encode such floats.
+
+   If *sort_keys* is ``True`` (the default), then the output of dictionaries
+   will be sorted by key; this is useful for regression tests to ensure that
+   JSON serializations can be compared on a day-to-day basis.
+
+   If *indent* is a non-negative integer (It is ``None`` by default.), then JSON
+   array elements and object members will be pretty-printed with that indent
+   level.  An indent level of 0 will only insert newlines.  ``None`` is the most
+   compact representation.
+
+   If specified, *separators* should be a (item_separator, key_separator) tuple.
+   The default is ``(', ', ': ')``.  To get the most compact JSON
+   representation, you should specify ``(',', ':')`` to eliminate whitespace.
+
+   If specified, *default* is a function that gets called for objects that can't
+   otherwise be serialized.  It should return a JSON encodable version of the
+   object or raise a :exc:`TypeError`.
+
+   If *encoding* is not ``None``, then all input strings will be transformed
+   into unicode using that encoding prior to JSON-encoding.  The default is
+   UTF-8.
+
+
+   .. method:: default(o)
+
+      Implement this method in a subclass such that it returns a serializable
+      object for *o*, or calls the base implementation (to raise a
+      :exc:`TypeError`).
+
+      For example, to support arbitrary iterators, you could implement default
+      like this::
+            
+         def default(self, o):
+            try:
+               iterable = iter(o)
+            except TypeError:
+               pass
+            else:
+                return list(iterable)
+            return JSONEncoder.default(self, o)
+
+
+   .. method:: encode(o)
+
+      Return a JSON string representation of a Python data structure, *o*. For
+      example::
+
+        >>> JSONEncoder().encode({"foo": ["bar", "baz"]})
+        '{"foo": ["bar", "baz"]}'
+
+
+   .. method:: iterencode(o)
+
+      Encode the given object, *o*, and yield each string representation as
+      available.
+
+      For example::
+            
+            for chunk in JSONEncoder().iterencode(bigobject):
+                mysocket.write(chunk)
diff --git a/Doc/library/netdata.rst b/Doc/library/netdata.rst
index 1bf9b6d..9d4aa34 100644
--- a/Doc/library/netdata.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/netdata.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ on the Internet.
 .. toctree::
 
    email.rst
+   json.rst
    mailcap.rst
    mailbox.rst
    mhlib.rst
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 03bd432..17493e7 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1210,6 +1210,7 @@ Mullender that was in Python's :file:`Demo/classes/` directory for a
 long time.  This implementation was significantly updated by Jeffrey
 Yasskin.
 
+
 Other Language Changes
 ======================
 
@@ -2146,6 +2147,31 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
 .. ======================================================================
 .. whole new modules get described in subsections here
 
+The :mod:`json` module
+----------------------
+
+The new :mod:`json` module supports the encoding and decoding of Python types in
+JSON (Javascript Object Notation). JSON is a lightweight interchange format
+often used in web applications. For more information about JSON, see
+http://www.json.org.
+
+:mod:`json` comes with support for decoding and encoding most builtin Python
+types. The following example encodes and decodes a dictionary::
+
+       >>> import json
+       >>> data = {"spam" : "foo", "parrot" : 42}
+       >>> in_json = json.dumps(data) # Encode the data
+       >>> in_json
+       '{"parrot": 42, "spam": "foo"}'
+       >>> json.loads(in_json) # Decode into a Python object
+       {"spam" : "foo", "parrot" : 42}
+
+It is also possible to write your own decoders and encoders to support more
+types. Pretty-printing of the JSON strings is also supported.
+
+:mod:`json` (originally called simplejson) was written by Bob Ippolito.
+
+
 Improved SSL Support
 --------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56116f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,318 @@
+r"""A simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder and decoder
+
+JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) <http://json.org> is a subset of
+JavaScript syntax (ECMA-262 3rd edition) used as a lightweight data
+interchange format.
+
+json exposes an API familiar to uses of the standard library
+marshal and pickle modules.
+
+Encoding basic Python object hierarchies::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> json.dumps(['foo', {'bar': ('baz', None, 1.0, 2)}])
+    '["foo", {"bar": ["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]'
+    >>> print json.dumps("\"foo\bar")
+    "\"foo\bar"
+    >>> print json.dumps(u'\u1234')
+    "\u1234"
+    >>> print json.dumps('\\')
+    "\\"
+    >>> print json.dumps({"c": 0, "b": 0, "a": 0}, sort_keys=True)
+    {"a": 0, "b": 0, "c": 0}
+    >>> from StringIO import StringIO
+    >>> io = StringIO()
+    >>> json.dump(['streaming API'], io)
+    >>> io.getvalue()
+    '["streaming API"]'
+
+Compact encoding::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> json.dumps([1,2,3,{'4': 5, '6': 7}], separators=(',',':'))
+    '[1,2,3,{"4":5,"6":7}]'
+
+Pretty printing (using repr() because of extraneous whitespace in the output)::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> print repr(json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4))
+    '{\n    "4": 5, \n    "6": 7\n}'
+
+Decoding JSON::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> json.loads('["foo", {"bar":["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]')
+    [u'foo', {u'bar': [u'baz', None, 1.0, 2]}]
+    >>> json.loads('"\\"foo\\bar"')
+    u'"foo\x08ar'
+    >>> from StringIO import StringIO
+    >>> io = StringIO('["streaming API"]')
+    >>> json.load(io)
+    [u'streaming API']
+
+Specializing JSON object decoding::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> def as_complex(dct):
+    ...     if '__complex__' in dct:
+    ...         return complex(dct['real'], dct['imag'])
+    ...     return dct
+    ...
+    >>> json.loads('{"__complex__": true, "real": 1, "imag": 2}',
+    ...     object_hook=as_complex)
+    (1+2j)
+    >>> import decimal
+    >>> json.loads('1.1', parse_float=decimal.Decimal)
+    Decimal('1.1')
+
+Extending JSONEncoder::
+
+    >>> import json
+    >>> class ComplexEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
+    ...     def default(self, obj):
+    ...         if isinstance(obj, complex):
+    ...             return [obj.real, obj.imag]
+    ...         return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
+    ...
+    >>> dumps(2 + 1j, cls=ComplexEncoder)
+    '[2.0, 1.0]'
+    >>> ComplexEncoder().encode(2 + 1j)
+    '[2.0, 1.0]'
+    >>> list(ComplexEncoder().iterencode(2 + 1j))
+    ['[', '2.0', ', ', '1.0', ']']
+
+
+Using json.tool from the shell to validate and
+pretty-print::
+
+    $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -mjson.tool
+    {
+        "json": "obj"
+    }
+    $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -mjson.tool
+    Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
+
+Note that the JSON produced by this module's default settings
+is a subset of YAML, so it may be used as a serializer for that as well.
+
+"""
+
+__version__ = '1.9'
+__all__ = [
+    'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
+    'JSONDecoder', 'JSONEncoder',
+]
+
+__author__ = 'Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>'
+
+from .decoder import JSONDecoder
+from .encoder import JSONEncoder
+
+_default_encoder = JSONEncoder(
+    skipkeys=False,
+    ensure_ascii=True,
+    check_circular=True,
+    allow_nan=True,
+    indent=None,
+    separators=None,
+    encoding='utf-8',
+    default=None,
+)
+
+def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
+        allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None,
+        encoding='utf-8', default=None, **kw):
+    """Serialize ``obj`` as a JSON formatted stream to ``fp`` (a
+    ``.write()``-supporting file-like object).
+
+    If ``skipkeys`` is ``True`` then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
+    (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``long``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``)
+    will be skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
+
+    If ``ensure_ascii`` is ``False``, then the some chunks written to ``fp``
+    may be ``unicode`` instances, subject to normal Python ``str`` to
+    ``unicode`` coercion rules. Unless ``fp.write()`` explicitly
+    understands ``unicode`` (as in ``codecs.getwriter()``) this is likely
+    to cause an error.
+
+    If ``check_circular`` is ``False``, then the circular reference check
+    for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
+    result in an ``OverflowError`` (or worse).
+
+    If ``allow_nan`` is ``False``, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
+    serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``)
+    in strict compliance of the JSON specification, instead of using the
+    JavaScript equivalents (``NaN``, ``Infinity``, ``-Infinity``).
+
+    If ``indent`` is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and object
+    members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level
+    of 0 will only insert newlines. ``None`` is the most compact representation.
+
+    If ``separators`` is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple
+    then it will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators.
+    ``(',', ':')`` is the most compact JSON representation.
+
+    ``encoding`` is the character encoding for str instances, default is UTF-8.
+
+    ``default(obj)`` is a function that should return a serializable version
+    of obj or raise TypeError. The default simply raises TypeError.
+
+    To use a custom ``JSONEncoder`` subclass (e.g. one that overrides the
+    ``.default()`` method to serialize additional types), specify it with
+    the ``cls`` kwarg.
+
+    """
+    # cached encoder
+    if (skipkeys is False and ensure_ascii is True and
+        check_circular is True and allow_nan is True and
+        cls is None and indent is None and separators is None and
+        encoding == 'utf-8' and default is None and not kw):
+        iterable = _default_encoder.iterencode(obj)
+    else:
+        if cls is None:
+            cls = JSONEncoder
+        iterable = cls(skipkeys=skipkeys, ensure_ascii=ensure_ascii,
+            check_circular=check_circular, allow_nan=allow_nan, indent=indent,
+            separators=separators, encoding=encoding,
+            default=default, **kw).iterencode(obj)
+    # could accelerate with writelines in some versions of Python, at
+    # a debuggability cost
+    for chunk in iterable:
+        fp.write(chunk)
+
+
+def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
+        allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None,
+        encoding='utf-8', default=None, **kw):
+    """Serialize ``obj`` to a JSON formatted ``str``.
+
+    If ``skipkeys`` is ``True`` then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
+    (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``long``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``)
+    will be skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
+
+    If ``ensure_ascii`` is ``False``, then the return value will be a
+    ``unicode`` instance subject to normal Python ``str`` to ``unicode``
+    coercion rules instead of being escaped to an ASCII ``str``.
+
+    If ``check_circular`` is ``False``, then the circular reference check
+    for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
+    result in an ``OverflowError`` (or worse).
+
+    If ``allow_nan`` is ``False``, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
+    serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``) in
+    strict compliance of the JSON specification, instead of using the
+    JavaScript equivalents (``NaN``, ``Infinity``, ``-Infinity``).
+
+    If ``indent`` is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and
+    object members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent
+    level of 0 will only insert newlines. ``None`` is the most compact
+    representation.
+
+    If ``separators`` is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple
+    then it will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators.
+    ``(',', ':')`` is the most compact JSON representation.
+
+    ``encoding`` is the character encoding for str instances, default is UTF-8.
+
+    ``default(obj)`` is a function that should return a serializable version
+    of obj or raise TypeError. The default simply raises TypeError.
+
+    To use a custom ``JSONEncoder`` subclass (e.g. one that overrides the
+    ``.default()`` method to serialize additional types), specify it with
+    the ``cls`` kwarg.
+
+    """
+    # cached encoder
+    if (skipkeys is False and ensure_ascii is True and
+        check_circular is True and allow_nan is True and
+        cls is None and indent is None and separators is None and
+        encoding == 'utf-8' and default is None and not kw):
+        return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
+    if cls is None:
+        cls = JSONEncoder
+    return cls(
+        skipkeys=skipkeys, ensure_ascii=ensure_ascii,
+        check_circular=check_circular, allow_nan=allow_nan, indent=indent,
+        separators=separators, encoding=encoding, default=default,
+        **kw).encode(obj)
+
+
+_default_decoder = JSONDecoder(encoding=None, object_hook=None)
+
+
+def load(fp, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
+        parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, **kw):
+    """Deserialize ``fp`` (a ``.read()``-supporting file-like object
+    containing a JSON document) to a Python object.
+
+    If the contents of ``fp`` is encoded with an ASCII based encoding other
+    than utf-8 (e.g. latin-1), then an appropriate ``encoding`` name must
+    be specified. Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2) are
+    not allowed, and should be wrapped with
+    ``codecs.getreader(fp)(encoding)``, or simply decoded to a ``unicode``
+    object and passed to ``loads()``
+
+    ``object_hook`` is an optional function that will be called with the
+    result of any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of
+    ``object_hook`` will be used instead of the ``dict``. This feature
+    can be used to implement custom decoders (e.g. JSON-RPC class hinting).
+
+    To use a custom ``JSONDecoder`` subclass, specify it with the ``cls``
+    kwarg.
+
+    """
+    return loads(fp.read(),
+        encoding=encoding, cls=cls, object_hook=object_hook,
+        parse_float=parse_float, parse_int=parse_int,
+        parse_constant=parse_constant, **kw)
+
+
+def loads(s, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
+        parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, **kw):
+    """Deserialize ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` instance containing a JSON
+    document) to a Python object.
+
+    If ``s`` is a ``str`` instance and is encoded with an ASCII based encoding
+    other than utf-8 (e.g. latin-1) then an appropriate ``encoding`` name
+    must be specified. Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2)
+    are not allowed and should be decoded to ``unicode`` first.
+
+    ``object_hook`` is an optional function that will be called with the
+    result of any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of
+    ``object_hook`` will be used instead of the ``dict``. This feature
+    can be used to implement custom decoders (e.g. JSON-RPC class hinting).
+
+    ``parse_float``, if specified, will be called with the string
+    of every JSON float to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to
+    float(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser
+    for JSON floats (e.g. decimal.Decimal).
+
+    ``parse_int``, if specified, will be called with the string
+    of every JSON int to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to
+    int(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser
+    for JSON integers (e.g. float).
+
+    ``parse_constant``, if specified, will be called with one of the
+    following strings: -Infinity, Infinity, NaN, null, true, false.
+    This can be used to raise an exception if invalid JSON numbers
+    are encountered.
+
+    To use a custom ``JSONDecoder`` subclass, specify it with the ``cls``
+    kwarg.
+
+    """
+    if (cls is None and encoding is None and object_hook is None and
+            parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
+            parse_constant is None and not kw):
+        return _default_decoder.decode(s)
+    if cls is None:
+        cls = JSONDecoder
+    if object_hook is not None:
+        kw['object_hook'] = object_hook
+    if parse_float is not None:
+        kw['parse_float'] = parse_float
+    if parse_int is not None:
+        kw['parse_int'] = parse_int
+    if parse_constant is not None:
+        kw['parse_constant'] = parse_constant
+    return cls(encoding=encoding, **kw).decode(s)
diff --git a/Lib/json/decoder.py b/Lib/json/decoder.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..acaee25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/decoder.py
@@ -0,0 +1,349 @@
+"""Implementation of JSONDecoder
+"""
+
+import re
+import sys
+
+from json.scanner import Scanner, pattern
+try:
+    from _json import scanstring as c_scanstring
+except ImportError:
+    c_scanstring = None
+
+__all__ = ['JSONDecoder']
+
+FLAGS = re.VERBOSE | re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL
+
+
+def _floatconstants():
+    import struct
+    import sys
+    _BYTES = '7FF80000000000007FF0000000000000'.decode('hex')
+    if sys.byteorder != 'big':
+        _BYTES = _BYTES[:8][::-1] + _BYTES[8:][::-1]
+    nan, inf = struct.unpack('dd', _BYTES)
+    return nan, inf, -inf
+
+NaN, PosInf, NegInf = _floatconstants()
+
+
+def linecol(doc, pos):
+    lineno = doc.count('\n', 0, pos) + 1
+    if lineno == 1:
+        colno = pos
+    else:
+        colno = pos - doc.rindex('\n', 0, pos)
+    return lineno, colno
+
+
+def errmsg(msg, doc, pos, end=None):
+    lineno, colno = linecol(doc, pos)
+    if end is None:
+        fmt = '{0}: line {1} column {2} (char {3})'
+        return fmt.format(msg, lineno, colno, pos)
+    endlineno, endcolno = linecol(doc, end)
+    fmt = '{0}: line {1} column {2} - line {3} column {4} (char {5} - {6})'
+    return fmt.format(msg, lineno, colno, endlineno, endcolno, pos, end)
+
+
+_CONSTANTS = {
+    '-Infinity': NegInf,
+    'Infinity': PosInf,
+    'NaN': NaN,
+    'true': True,
+    'false': False,
+    'null': None,
+}
+
+
+def JSONConstant(match, context, c=_CONSTANTS):
+    s = match.group(0)
+    fn = getattr(context, 'parse_constant', None)
+    if fn is None:
+        rval = c[s]
+    else:
+        rval = fn(s)
+    return rval, None
+pattern('(-?Infinity|NaN|true|false|null)')(JSONConstant)
+
+
+def JSONNumber(match, context):
+    match = JSONNumber.regex.match(match.string, *match.span())
+    integer, frac, exp = match.groups()
+    if frac or exp:
+        fn = getattr(context, 'parse_float', None) or float
+        res = fn(integer + (frac or '') + (exp or ''))
+    else:
+        fn = getattr(context, 'parse_int', None) or int
+        res = fn(integer)
+    return res, None
+pattern(r'(-?(?:0|[1-9]\d*))(\.\d+)?([eE][-+]?\d+)?')(JSONNumber)
+
+
+STRINGCHUNK = re.compile(r'(.*?)(["\\\x00-\x1f])', FLAGS)
+BACKSLASH = {
+    '"': u'"', '\\': u'\\', '/': u'/',
+    'b': u'\b', 'f': u'\f', 'n': u'\n', 'r': u'\r', 't': u'\t',
+}
+
+DEFAULT_ENCODING = "utf-8"
+
+
+def py_scanstring(s, end, encoding=None, strict=True, _b=BACKSLASH, _m=STRINGCHUNK.match):
+    if encoding is None:
+        encoding = DEFAULT_ENCODING
+    chunks = []
+    _append = chunks.append
+    begin = end - 1
+    while 1:
+        chunk = _m(s, end)
+        if chunk is None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                errmsg("Unterminated string starting at", s, begin))
+        end = chunk.end()
+        content, terminator = chunk.groups()
+        if content:
+            if not isinstance(content, unicode):
+                content = unicode(content, encoding)
+            _append(content)
+        if terminator == '"':
+            break
+        elif terminator != '\\':
+            if strict:
+                msg = "Invalid control character {0!r} at".format(terminator)
+                raise ValueError(errmsg(msg, s, end))
+            else:
+                _append(terminator)
+                continue
+        try:
+            esc = s[end]
+        except IndexError:
+            raise ValueError(
+                errmsg("Unterminated string starting at", s, begin))
+        if esc != 'u':
+            try:
+                m = _b[esc]
+            except KeyError:
+                msg = "Invalid \\escape: {0!r}".format(esc)
+                raise ValueError(errmsg(msg, s, end))
+            end += 1
+        else:
+            esc = s[end + 1:end + 5]
+            next_end = end + 5
+            msg = "Invalid \\uXXXX escape"
+            try:
+                if len(esc) != 4:
+                    raise ValueError
+                uni = int(esc, 16)
+                if 0xd800 <= uni <= 0xdbff and sys.maxunicode > 65535:
+                    msg = "Invalid \\uXXXX\\uXXXX surrogate pair"
+                    if not s[end + 5:end + 7] == '\\u':
+                        raise ValueError
+                    esc2 = s[end + 7:end + 11]
+                    if len(esc2) != 4:
+                        raise ValueError
+                    uni2 = int(esc2, 16)
+                    uni = 0x10000 + (((uni - 0xd800) << 10) | (uni2 - 0xdc00))
+                    next_end += 6
+                m = unichr(uni)
+            except ValueError:
+                raise ValueError(errmsg(msg, s, end))
+            end = next_end
+        _append(m)
+    return u''.join(chunks), end
+
+
+# Use speedup
+if c_scanstring is not None:
+    scanstring = c_scanstring
+else:
+    scanstring = py_scanstring
+
+def JSONString(match, context):
+    encoding = getattr(context, 'encoding', None)
+    strict = getattr(context, 'strict', True)
+    return scanstring(match.string, match.end(), encoding, strict)
+pattern(r'"')(JSONString)
+
+
+WHITESPACE = re.compile(r'\s*', FLAGS)
+
+
+def JSONObject(match, context, _w=WHITESPACE.match):
+    pairs = {}
+    s = match.string
+    end = _w(s, match.end()).end()
+    nextchar = s[end:end + 1]
+    # Trivial empty object
+    if nextchar == '}':
+        return pairs, end + 1
+    if nextchar != '"':
+        raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting property name", s, end))
+    end += 1
+    encoding = getattr(context, 'encoding', None)
+    strict = getattr(context, 'strict', True)
+    iterscan = JSONScanner.iterscan
+    while True:
+        key, end = scanstring(s, end, encoding, strict)
+        end = _w(s, end).end()
+        if s[end:end + 1] != ':':
+            raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting : delimiter", s, end))
+        end = _w(s, end + 1).end()
+        try:
+            value, end = iterscan(s, idx=end, context=context).next()
+        except StopIteration:
+            raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting object", s, end))
+        pairs[key] = value
+        end = _w(s, end).end()
+        nextchar = s[end:end + 1]
+        end += 1
+        if nextchar == '}':
+            break
+        if nextchar != ',':
+            raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting , delimiter", s, end - 1))
+        end = _w(s, end).end()
+        nextchar = s[end:end + 1]
+        end += 1
+        if nextchar != '"':
+            raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting property name", s, end - 1))
+    object_hook = getattr(context, 'object_hook', None)
+    if object_hook is not None:
+        pairs = object_hook(pairs)
+    return pairs, end
+pattern(r'{')(JSONObject)
+
+
+def JSONArray(match, context, _w=WHITESPACE.match):
+    values = []
+    s = match.string
+    end = _w(s, match.end()).end()
+    # Look-ahead for trivial empty array
+    nextchar = s[end:end + 1]
+    if nextchar == ']':
+        return values, end + 1
+    iterscan = JSONScanner.iterscan
+    while True:
+        try:
+            value, end = iterscan(s, idx=end, context=context).next()
+        except StopIteration:
+            raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting object", s, end))
+        values.append(value)
+        end = _w(s, end).end()
+        nextchar = s[end:end + 1]
+        end += 1
+        if nextchar == ']':
+            break
+        if nextchar != ',':
+            raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting , delimiter", s, end))
+        end = _w(s, end).end()
+    return values, end
+pattern(r'\[')(JSONArray)
+
+
+ANYTHING = [
+    JSONObject,
+    JSONArray,
+    JSONString,
+    JSONConstant,
+    JSONNumber,
+]
+
+JSONScanner = Scanner(ANYTHING)
+
+
+class JSONDecoder(object):
+    """Simple JSON <http://json.org> decoder
+
+    Performs the following translations in decoding by default:
+
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+    | JSON          | Python            |
+    +===============+===================+
+    | object        | dict              |
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+    | array         | list              |
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+    | string        | unicode           |
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+    | number (int)  | int, long         |
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+    | number (real) | float             |
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+    | true          | True              |
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+    | false         | False             |
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+    | null          | None              |
+    +---------------+-------------------+
+
+    It also understands ``NaN``, ``Infinity``, and ``-Infinity`` as
+    their corresponding ``float`` values, which is outside the JSON spec.
+    """
+
+    _scanner = Scanner(ANYTHING)
+    __all__ = ['__init__', 'decode', 'raw_decode']
+
+    def __init__(self, encoding=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
+            parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, strict=True):
+        """``encoding`` determines the encoding used to interpret any ``str``
+        objects decoded by this instance (utf-8 by default).  It has no
+        effect when decoding ``unicode`` objects.
+
+        Note that currently only encodings that are a superset of ASCII work,
+        strings of other encodings should be passed in as ``unicode``.
+
+        ``object_hook``, if specified, will be called with the result of
+        every JSON object decoded and its return value will be used in
+        place of the given ``dict``.  This can be used to provide custom
+        deserializations (e.g. to support JSON-RPC class hinting).
+
+        ``parse_float``, if specified, will be called with the string
+        of every JSON float to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to
+        float(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser
+        for JSON floats (e.g. decimal.Decimal).
+
+        ``parse_int``, if specified, will be called with the string
+        of every JSON int to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to
+        int(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser
+        for JSON integers (e.g. float).
+
+        ``parse_constant``, if specified, will be called with one of the
+        following strings: -Infinity, Infinity, NaN, null, true, false.
+        This can be used to raise an exception if invalid JSON numbers
+        are encountered.
+
+        """
+        self.encoding = encoding
+        self.object_hook = object_hook
+        self.parse_float = parse_float
+        self.parse_int = parse_int
+        self.parse_constant = parse_constant
+        self.strict = strict
+
+    def decode(self, s, _w=WHITESPACE.match):
+        """
+        Return the Python representation of ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode``
+        instance containing a JSON document)
+
+        """
+        obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
+        end = _w(s, end).end()
+        if end != len(s):
+            raise ValueError(errmsg("Extra data", s, end, len(s)))
+        return obj
+
+    def raw_decode(self, s, **kw):
+        """Decode a JSON document from ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` beginning
+        with a JSON document) and return a 2-tuple of the Python
+        representation and the index in ``s`` where the document ended.
+
+        This can be used to decode a JSON document from a string that may
+        have extraneous data at the end.
+
+        """
+        kw.setdefault('context', self)
+        try:
+            obj, end = self._scanner.iterscan(s, **kw).next()
+        except StopIteration:
+            raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
+        return obj, end
diff --git a/Lib/json/encoder.py b/Lib/json/encoder.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8d4770
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py
@@ -0,0 +1,384 @@
+"""Implementation of JSONEncoder
+"""
+
+import re
+
+try:
+    from _json import encode_basestring_ascii as c_encode_basestring_ascii
+except ImportError:
+    c_encode_basestring_ascii = None
+
+__all__ = ['JSONEncoder']
+
+ESCAPE = re.compile(r'[\x00-\x1f\\"\b\f\n\r\t]')
+ESCAPE_ASCII = re.compile(r'([\\"]|[^\ -~])')
+HAS_UTF8 = re.compile(r'[\x80-\xff]')
+ESCAPE_DCT = {
+    '\\': '\\\\',
+    '"': '\\"',
+    '\b': '\\b',
+    '\f': '\\f',
+    '\n': '\\n',
+    '\r': '\\r',
+    '\t': '\\t',
+}
+for i in range(0x20):
+    ESCAPE_DCT.setdefault(chr(i), '\\u{0:04x}'.format(i))
+
+# Assume this produces an infinity on all machines (probably not guaranteed)
+INFINITY = float('1e66666')
+FLOAT_REPR = repr
+
+def floatstr(o, allow_nan=True):
+    # Check for specials.  Note that this type of test is processor- and/or
+    # platform-specific, so do tests which don't depend on the internals.
+
+    if o != o:
+        text = 'NaN'
+    elif o == INFINITY:
+        text = 'Infinity'
+    elif o == -INFINITY:
+        text = '-Infinity'
+    else:
+        return FLOAT_REPR(o)
+
+    if not allow_nan:
+        msg = "Out of range float values are not JSON compliant: " + repr(o)
+        raise ValueError(msg)
+
+    return text
+
+
+def encode_basestring(s):
+    """Return a JSON representation of a Python string
+
+    """
+    def replace(match):
+        return ESCAPE_DCT[match.group(0)]
+    return '"' + ESCAPE.sub(replace, s) + '"'
+
+
+def py_encode_basestring_ascii(s):
+    if isinstance(s, str) and HAS_UTF8.search(s) is not None:
+        s = s.decode('utf-8')
+    def replace(match):
+        s = match.group(0)
+        try:
+            return ESCAPE_DCT[s]
+        except KeyError:
+            n = ord(s)
+            if n < 0x10000:
+                return '\\u{0:04x}'.format(n)
+            else:
+                # surrogate pair
+                n -= 0x10000
+                s1 = 0xd800 | ((n >> 10) & 0x3ff)
+                s2 = 0xdc00 | (n & 0x3ff)
+                return '\\u{0:04x}\\u{1:04x}'.format(s1, s2)
+    return '"' + str(ESCAPE_ASCII.sub(replace, s)) + '"'
+
+
+if c_encode_basestring_ascii is not None:
+    encode_basestring_ascii = c_encode_basestring_ascii
+else:
+    encode_basestring_ascii = py_encode_basestring_ascii
+
+
+class JSONEncoder(object):
+    """Extensible JSON <http://json.org> encoder for Python data structures.
+
+    Supports the following objects and types by default:
+
+    +-------------------+---------------+
+    | Python            | JSON          |
+    +===================+===============+
+    | dict              | object        |
+    +-------------------+---------------+
+    | list, tuple       | array         |
+    +-------------------+---------------+
+    | str, unicode      | string        |
+    +-------------------+---------------+
+    | int, long, float  | number        |
+    +-------------------+---------------+
+    | True              | true          |
+    +-------------------+---------------+
+    | False             | false         |
+    +-------------------+---------------+
+    | None              | null          |
+    +-------------------+---------------+
+
+    To extend this to recognize other objects, subclass and implement a
+    ``.default()`` method with another method that returns a serializable
+    object for ``o`` if possible, otherwise it should call the superclass
+    implementation (to raise ``TypeError``).
+
+    """
+    __all__ = ['__init__', 'default', 'encode', 'iterencode']
+    item_separator = ', '
+    key_separator = ': '
+    def __init__(self, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True,
+            check_circular=True, allow_nan=True, sort_keys=False,
+            indent=None, separators=None, encoding='utf-8', default=None):
+        """Constructor for JSONEncoder, with sensible defaults.
+
+        If skipkeys is False, then it is a TypeError to attempt
+        encoding of keys that are not str, int, long, float or None.  If
+        skipkeys is True, such items are simply skipped.
+
+        If ensure_ascii is True, the output is guaranteed to be str
+        objects with all incoming unicode characters escaped.  If
+        ensure_ascii is false, the output will be unicode object.
+
+        If check_circular is True, then lists, dicts, and custom encoded
+        objects will be checked for circular references during encoding to
+        prevent an infinite recursion (which would cause an OverflowError).
+        Otherwise, no such check takes place.
+
+        If allow_nan is True, then NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity will be
+        encoded as such.  This behavior is not JSON specification compliant,
+        but is consistent with most JavaScript based encoders and decoders.
+        Otherwise, it will be a ValueError to encode such floats.
+
+        If sort_keys is True, then the output of dictionaries will be
+        sorted by key; this is useful for regression tests to ensure
+        that JSON serializations can be compared on a day-to-day basis.
+
+        If indent is a non-negative integer, then JSON array
+        elements and object members will be pretty-printed with that
+        indent level.  An indent level of 0 will only insert newlines.
+        None is the most compact representation.
+
+        If specified, separators should be a (item_separator, key_separator)
+        tuple.  The default is (', ', ': ').  To get the most compact JSON
+        representation you should specify (',', ':') to eliminate whitespace.
+
+        If specified, default is a function that gets called for objects
+        that can't otherwise be serialized.  It should return a JSON encodable
+        version of the object or raise a ``TypeError``.
+
+        If encoding is not None, then all input strings will be
+        transformed into unicode using that encoding prior to JSON-encoding.
+        The default is UTF-8.
+
+        """
+        self.skipkeys = skipkeys
+        self.ensure_ascii = ensure_ascii
+        self.check_circular = check_circular
+        self.allow_nan = allow_nan
+        self.sort_keys = sort_keys
+        self.indent = indent
+        self.current_indent_level = 0
+        if separators is not None:
+            self.item_separator, self.key_separator = separators
+        if default is not None:
+            self.default = default
+        self.encoding = encoding
+
+    def _newline_indent(self):
+        return '\n' + (' ' * (self.indent * self.current_indent_level))
+
+    def _iterencode_list(self, lst, markers=None):
+        if not lst:
+            yield '[]'
+            return
+        if markers is not None:
+            markerid = id(lst)
+            if markerid in markers:
+                raise ValueError("Circular reference detected")
+            markers[markerid] = lst
+        yield '['
+        if self.indent is not None:
+            self.current_indent_level += 1
+            newline_indent = self._newline_indent()
+            separator = self.item_separator + newline_indent
+            yield newline_indent
+        else:
+            newline_indent = None
+            separator = self.item_separator
+        first = True
+        for value in lst:
+            if first:
+                first = False
+            else:
+                yield separator
+            for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
+                yield chunk
+        if newline_indent is not None:
+            self.current_indent_level -= 1
+            yield self._newline_indent()
+        yield ']'
+        if markers is not None:
+            del markers[markerid]
+
+    def _iterencode_dict(self, dct, markers=None):
+        if not dct:
+            yield '{}'
+            return
+        if markers is not None:
+            markerid = id(dct)
+            if markerid in markers:
+                raise ValueError("Circular reference detected")
+            markers[markerid] = dct
+        yield '{'
+        key_separator = self.key_separator
+        if self.indent is not None:
+            self.current_indent_level += 1
+            newline_indent = self._newline_indent()
+            item_separator = self.item_separator + newline_indent
+            yield newline_indent
+        else:
+            newline_indent = None
+            item_separator = self.item_separator
+        first = True
+        if self.ensure_ascii:
+            encoder = encode_basestring_ascii
+        else:
+            encoder = encode_basestring
+        allow_nan = self.allow_nan
+        if self.sort_keys:
+            keys = dct.keys()
+            keys.sort()
+            items = [(k, dct[k]) for k in keys]
+        else:
+            items = dct.iteritems()
+        _encoding = self.encoding
+        _do_decode = (_encoding is not None
+            and not (_encoding == 'utf-8'))
+        for key, value in items:
+            if isinstance(key, str):
+                if _do_decode:
+                    key = key.decode(_encoding)
+            elif isinstance(key, basestring):
+                pass
+            # JavaScript is weakly typed for these, so it makes sense to
+            # also allow them.  Many encoders seem to do something like this.
+            elif isinstance(key, float):
+                key = floatstr(key, allow_nan)
+            elif isinstance(key, (int, long)):
+                key = str(key)
+            elif key is True:
+                key = 'true'
+            elif key is False:
+                key = 'false'
+            elif key is None:
+                key = 'null'
+            elif self.skipkeys:
+                continue
+            else:
+                raise TypeError("key {0!r} is not a string".format(key))
+            if first:
+                first = False
+            else:
+                yield item_separator
+            yield encoder(key)
+            yield key_separator
+            for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
+                yield chunk
+        if newline_indent is not None:
+            self.current_indent_level -= 1
+            yield self._newline_indent()
+        yield '}'
+        if markers is not None:
+            del markers[markerid]
+
+    def _iterencode(self, o, markers=None):
+        if isinstance(o, basestring):
+            if self.ensure_ascii:
+                encoder = encode_basestring_ascii
+            else:
+                encoder = encode_basestring
+            _encoding = self.encoding
+            if (_encoding is not None and isinstance(o, str)
+                    and not (_encoding == 'utf-8')):
+                o = o.decode(_encoding)
+            yield encoder(o)
+        elif o is None:
+            yield 'null'
+        elif o is True:
+            yield 'true'
+        elif o is False:
+            yield 'false'
+        elif isinstance(o, (int, long)):
+            yield str(o)
+        elif isinstance(o, float):
+            yield floatstr(o, self.allow_nan)
+        elif isinstance(o, (list, tuple)):
+            for chunk in self._iterencode_list(o, markers):
+                yield chunk
+        elif isinstance(o, dict):
+            for chunk in self._iterencode_dict(o, markers):
+                yield chunk
+        else:
+            if markers is not None:
+                markerid = id(o)
+                if markerid in markers:
+                    raise ValueError("Circular reference detected")
+                markers[markerid] = o
+            for chunk in self._iterencode_default(o, markers):
+                yield chunk
+            if markers is not None:
+                del markers[markerid]
+
+    def _iterencode_default(self, o, markers=None):
+        newobj = self.default(o)
+        return self._iterencode(newobj, markers)
+
+    def default(self, o):
+        """Implement this method in a subclass such that it returns a serializable
+        object for ``o``, or calls the base implementation (to raise a
+        ``TypeError``).
+
+        For example, to support arbitrary iterators, you could implement
+        default like this::
+
+            def default(self, o):
+                try:
+                    iterable = iter(o)
+                except TypeError:
+                    pass
+                else:
+                    return list(iterable)
+                return JSONEncoder.default(self, o)
+
+        """
+        raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
+
+    def encode(self, o):
+        """Return a JSON string representation of a Python data structure.
+
+        >>> JSONEncoder().encode({"foo": ["bar", "baz"]})
+        '{"foo": ["bar", "baz"]}'
+
+        """
+        # This is for extremely simple cases and benchmarks.
+        if isinstance(o, basestring):
+            if isinstance(o, str):
+                _encoding = self.encoding
+                if (_encoding is not None
+                        and not (_encoding == 'utf-8')):
+                    o = o.decode(_encoding)
+            if self.ensure_ascii:
+                return encode_basestring_ascii(o)
+            else:
+                return encode_basestring(o)
+        # This doesn't pass the iterator directly to ''.join() because the
+        # exceptions aren't as detailed.  The list call should be roughly
+        # equivalent to the PySequence_Fast that ''.join() would do.
+        chunks = list(self.iterencode(o))
+        return ''.join(chunks)
+
+    def iterencode(self, o):
+        """Encode the given object and yield each string representation as
+        available.
+
+        For example::
+
+            for chunk in JSONEncoder().iterencode(bigobject):
+                mysocket.write(chunk)
+
+        """
+        if self.check_circular:
+            markers = {}
+        else:
+            markers = None
+        return self._iterencode(o, markers)
diff --git a/Lib/json/scanner.py b/Lib/json/scanner.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b065ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/scanner.py
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+"""Iterator based sre token scanner
+
+"""
+
+import re
+import sre_parse
+import sre_compile
+import sre_constants
+
+from re import VERBOSE, MULTILINE, DOTALL
+from sre_constants import BRANCH, SUBPATTERN
+
+__all__ = ['Scanner', 'pattern']
+
+FLAGS = (VERBOSE | MULTILINE | DOTALL)
+
+class Scanner(object):
+    def __init__(self, lexicon, flags=FLAGS):
+        self.actions = [None]
+        # Combine phrases into a compound pattern
+        s = sre_parse.Pattern()
+        s.flags = flags
+        p = []
+        for idx, token in enumerate(lexicon):
+            phrase = token.pattern
+            try:
+                subpattern = sre_parse.SubPattern(s,
+                    [(SUBPATTERN, (idx + 1, sre_parse.parse(phrase, flags)))])
+            except sre_constants.error:
+                raise
+            p.append(subpattern)
+            self.actions.append(token)
+
+        s.groups = len(p) + 1 # NOTE(guido): Added to make SRE validation work
+        p = sre_parse.SubPattern(s, [(BRANCH, (None, p))])
+        self.scanner = sre_compile.compile(p)
+
+    def iterscan(self, string, idx=0, context=None):
+        """Yield match, end_idx for each match
+
+        """
+        match = self.scanner.scanner(string, idx).match
+        actions = self.actions
+        lastend = idx
+        end = len(string)
+        while True:
+            m = match()
+            if m is None:
+                break
+            matchbegin, matchend = m.span()
+            if lastend == matchend:
+                break
+            action = actions[m.lastindex]
+            if action is not None:
+                rval, next_pos = action(m, context)
+                if next_pos is not None and next_pos != matchend:
+                    # "fast forward" the scanner
+                    matchend = next_pos
+                    match = self.scanner.scanner(string, matchend).match
+                yield rval, matchend
+            lastend = matchend
+
+
+def pattern(pattern, flags=FLAGS):
+    def decorator(fn):
+        fn.pattern = pattern
+        fn.regex = re.compile(pattern, flags)
+        return fn
+    return decorator
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/__init__.py b/Lib/json/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a0797ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import os
+import sys
+import unittest
+import doctest
+
+here = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+def test_suite():
+    suite = additional_tests()
+    loader = unittest.TestLoader()
+    for fn in os.listdir(here):
+        if fn.startswith("test") and fn.endswith(".py"):
+            modname = "json.tests." + fn[:-3]
+            __import__(modname)
+            module = sys.modules[modname]
+            suite.addTests(loader.loadTestsFromModule(module))
+    return suite
+
+def additional_tests():
+    import json
+    import json.encoder
+    import json.decoder
+    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
+    for mod in (json, json.encoder, json.decoder):
+        suite.addTest(doctest.DocTestSuite(mod))
+    return suite
+
+def main():
+    suite = test_suite()
+    runner = unittest.TextTestRunner()
+    runner.run(suite)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import os
+    import sys
+    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))))
+    main()
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..609f622
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import decimal
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+class TestDecode(TestCase):
+    def test_decimal(self):
+        rval = json.loads('1.1', parse_float=decimal.Decimal)
+        self.assert_(isinstance(rval, decimal.Decimal))
+        self.assertEquals(rval, decimal.Decimal('1.1'))
+
+    def test_float(self):
+        rval = json.loads('1', parse_int=float)
+        self.assert_(isinstance(rval, float))
+        self.assertEquals(rval, 1.0)
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_default.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_default.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49f05ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_default.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+class TestDefault(TestCase):
+    def test_default(self):
+        self.assertEquals(
+            json.dumps(type, default=repr),
+            json.dumps(repr(type)))
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_dump.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_dump.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d288c0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_dump.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+from cStringIO import StringIO
+
+import json
+
+class TestDump(TestCase):
+    def test_dump(self):
+        sio = StringIO()
+        json.dump({}, sio)
+        self.assertEquals(sio.getvalue(), '{}')
+
+    def test_dumps(self):
+        self.assertEquals(json.dumps({}), '{}')
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_encode_basestring_ascii.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_encode_basestring_ascii.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..352423e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_encode_basestring_ascii.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json.encoder
+
+CASES = [
+    (u'/\\"\ucafe\ubabe\uab98\ufcde\ubcda\uef4a\x08\x0c\n\r\t`1~!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;:\',./<>?', '"/\\\\\\"\\ucafe\\ubabe\\uab98\\ufcde\\ubcda\\uef4a\\b\\f\\n\\r\\t`1~!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;:\',./<>?"'),
+    (u'\u0123\u4567\u89ab\ucdef\uabcd\uef4a', '"\\u0123\\u4567\\u89ab\\ucdef\\uabcd\\uef4a"'),
+    (u'controls', '"controls"'),
+    (u'\x08\x0c\n\r\t', '"\\b\\f\\n\\r\\t"'),
+    (u'{"object with 1 member":["array with 1 element"]}', '"{\\"object with 1 member\\":[\\"array with 1 element\\"]}"'),
+    (u' s p a c e d ', '" s p a c e d "'),
+    (u'\U0001d120', '"\\ud834\\udd20"'),
+    (u'\u03b1\u03a9', '"\\u03b1\\u03a9"'),
+    ('\xce\xb1\xce\xa9', '"\\u03b1\\u03a9"'),
+    (u'\u03b1\u03a9', '"\\u03b1\\u03a9"'),
+    ('\xce\xb1\xce\xa9', '"\\u03b1\\u03a9"'),
+    (u'\u03b1\u03a9', '"\\u03b1\\u03a9"'),
+    (u'\u03b1\u03a9', '"\\u03b1\\u03a9"'),
+    (u"`1~!@#$%^&*()_+-={':[,]}|;.</>?", '"`1~!@#$%^&*()_+-={\':[,]}|;.</>?"'),
+    (u'\x08\x0c\n\r\t', '"\\b\\f\\n\\r\\t"'),
+    (u'\u0123\u4567\u89ab\ucdef\uabcd\uef4a', '"\\u0123\\u4567\\u89ab\\ucdef\\uabcd\\uef4a"'),
+]
+
+class TestEncodeBaseStringAscii(TestCase):
+    def test_py_encode_basestring_ascii(self):
+        self._test_encode_basestring_ascii(json.encoder.py_encode_basestring_ascii)
+
+    def test_c_encode_basestring_ascii(self):
+        self._test_encode_basestring_ascii(json.encoder.c_encode_basestring_ascii)
+
+    def _test_encode_basestring_ascii(self, encode_basestring_ascii):
+        fname = encode_basestring_ascii.__name__
+        for input_string, expect in CASES:
+            result = encode_basestring_ascii(input_string)
+            self.assertEquals(result, expect)
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_fail.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_fail.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee31bfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_fail.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+# Fri Dec 30 18:57:26 2005
+JSONDOCS = [
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail1.json
+    '"A JSON payload should be an object or array, not a string."',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail2.json
+    '["Unclosed array"',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail3.json
+    '{unquoted_key: "keys must be quoted}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail4.json
+    '["extra comma",]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail5.json
+    '["double extra comma",,]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail6.json
+    '[   , "<-- missing value"]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail7.json
+    '["Comma after the close"],',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail8.json
+    '["Extra close"]]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail9.json
+    '{"Extra comma": true,}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail10.json
+    '{"Extra value after close": true} "misplaced quoted value"',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail11.json
+    '{"Illegal expression": 1 + 2}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail12.json
+    '{"Illegal invocation": alert()}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail13.json
+    '{"Numbers cannot have leading zeroes": 013}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail14.json
+    '{"Numbers cannot be hex": 0x14}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail15.json
+    '["Illegal backslash escape: \\x15"]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail16.json
+    '["Illegal backslash escape: \\\'"]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail17.json
+    '["Illegal backslash escape: \\017"]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail18.json
+    '[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[["Too deep"]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail19.json
+    '{"Missing colon" null}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail20.json
+    '{"Double colon":: null}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail21.json
+    '{"Comma instead of colon", null}',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail22.json
+    '["Colon instead of comma": false]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail23.json
+    '["Bad value", truth]',
+    # http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/fail24.json
+    "['single quote']",
+    # http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/issues/detail?id=3
+    u'["A\u001FZ control characters in string"]',
+]
+
+SKIPS = {
+    1: "why not have a string payload?",
+    18: "spec doesn't specify any nesting limitations",
+}
+
+class TestFail(TestCase):
+    def test_failures(self):
+        for idx, doc in enumerate(JSONDOCS):
+            idx = idx + 1
+            if idx in SKIPS:
+                json.loads(doc)
+                continue
+            try:
+                json.loads(doc)
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+            else:
+                self.fail("Expected failure for fail%d.json: %r" % (idx, doc))
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_float.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_float.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9df6d1ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_float.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import math
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+class TestFloat(TestCase):
+    def test_floats(self):
+        for num in [1617161771.7650001, math.pi, math.pi**100, math.pi**-100]:
+            self.assertEquals(float(json.dumps(num)), num)
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_indent.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_indent.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6055162
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_indent.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+import textwrap
+
+class TestIndent(TestCase):
+    def test_indent(self):
+        h = [['blorpie'], ['whoops'], [], 'd-shtaeou', 'd-nthiouh', 'i-vhbjkhnth',
+             {'nifty': 87}, {'field': 'yes', 'morefield': False} ]
+
+        expect = textwrap.dedent("""\
+        [
+          [
+            "blorpie"
+          ],
+          [
+            "whoops"
+          ],
+          [],
+          "d-shtaeou",
+          "d-nthiouh",
+          "i-vhbjkhnth",
+          {
+            "nifty": 87
+          },
+          {
+            "field": "yes",
+            "morefield": false
+          }
+        ]""")
+
+
+        d1 = json.dumps(h)
+        d2 = json.dumps(h, indent=2, sort_keys=True, separators=(',', ': '))
+
+        h1 = json.loads(d1)
+        h2 = json.loads(d2)
+
+        self.assertEquals(h1, h)
+        self.assertEquals(h2, h)
+        self.assertEquals(d2, expect)
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_pass1.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_pass1.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..216e252
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_pass1.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+# from http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/pass1.json
+JSON = r'''
+[
+    "JSON Test Pattern pass1",
+    {"object with 1 member":["array with 1 element"]},
+    {},
+    [],
+    -42,
+    true,
+    false,
+    null,
+    {
+        "integer": 1234567890,
+        "real": -9876.543210,
+        "e": 0.123456789e-12,
+        "E": 1.234567890E+34,
+        "":  23456789012E666,
+        "zero": 0,
+        "one": 1,
+        "space": " ",
+        "quote": "\"",
+        "backslash": "\\",
+        "controls": "\b\f\n\r\t",
+        "slash": "/ & \/",
+        "alpha": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz",
+        "ALPHA": "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZ",
+        "digit": "0123456789",
+        "special": "`1~!@#$%^&*()_+-={':[,]}|;.</>?",
+        "hex": "\u0123\u4567\u89AB\uCDEF\uabcd\uef4A",
+        "true": true,
+        "false": false,
+        "null": null,
+        "array":[  ],
+        "object":{  },
+        "address": "50 St. James Street",
+        "url": "http://www.JSON.org/",
+        "comment": "// /* <!-- --",
+        "# -- --> */": " ",
+        " s p a c e d " :[1,2 , 3
+
+,
+
+4 , 5        ,          6           ,7        ],
+        "compact": [1,2,3,4,5,6,7],
+        "jsontext": "{\"object with 1 member\":[\"array with 1 element\"]}",
+        "quotes": "&#34; \u0022 %22 0x22 034 &#x22;",
+        "\/\\\"\uCAFE\uBABE\uAB98\uFCDE\ubcda\uef4A\b\f\n\r\t`1~!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;:',./<>?"
+: "A key can be any string"
+    },
+    0.5 ,98.6
+,
+99.44
+,
+
+1066
+
+
+,"rosebud"]
+'''
+
+class TestPass1(TestCase):
+    def test_parse(self):
+        # test in/out equivalence and parsing
+        res = json.loads(JSON)
+        out = json.dumps(res)
+        self.assertEquals(res, json.loads(out))
+        try:
+            json.dumps(res, allow_nan=False)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self.fail("23456789012E666 should be out of range")
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_pass2.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_pass2.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80d8433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_pass2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+import json
+
+# from http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/pass2.json
+JSON = r'''
+[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[["Not too deep"]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
+'''
+
+class TestPass2(TestCase):
+    def test_parse(self):
+        # test in/out equivalence and parsing
+        res = json.loads(JSON)
+        out = json.dumps(res)
+        self.assertEquals(res, json.loads(out))
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_pass3.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_pass3.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77d87b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_pass3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+# from http://json.org/JSON_checker/test/pass3.json
+JSON = r'''
+{
+    "JSON Test Pattern pass3": {
+        "The outermost value": "must be an object or array.",
+        "In this test": "It is an object."
+    }
+}
+'''
+
+class TestPass3(TestCase):
+    def test_parse(self):
+        # test in/out equivalence and parsing
+        res = json.loads(JSON)
+        out = json.dumps(res)
+        self.assertEquals(res, json.loads(out))
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_recursion.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_recursion.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b82a373
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_recursion.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+class JSONTestObject:
+    pass
+
+class RecursiveJSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
+    recurse = False
+    def default(self, o):
+        if o is JSONTestObject:
+            if self.recurse:
+                return [JSONTestObject]
+            else:
+                return 'JSONTestObject'
+        return json.JSONEncoder.default(o)
+
+class TestRecursion(TestCase):
+    def test_listrecursion(self):
+        x = []
+        x.append(x)
+        try:
+            json.dumps(x)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self.fail("didn't raise ValueError on list recursion")
+        x = []
+        y = [x]
+        x.append(y)
+        try:
+            json.dumps(x)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self.fail("didn't raise ValueError on alternating list recursion")
+        y = []
+        x = [y, y]
+        # ensure that the marker is cleared
+        json.dumps(x)
+
+    def test_dictrecursion(self):
+        x = {}
+        x["test"] = x
+        try:
+            json.dumps(x)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self.fail("didn't raise ValueError on dict recursion")
+        x = {}
+        y = {"a": x, "b": x}
+        # ensure that the marker is cleared
+        json.dumps(x)
+
+    def test_defaultrecursion(self):
+        enc = RecursiveJSONEncoder()
+        self.assertEquals(enc.encode(JSONTestObject), '"JSONTestObject"')
+        enc.recurse = True
+        try:
+            enc.encode(JSONTestObject)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self.fail("didn't raise ValueError on default recursion")
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_scanstring.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_scanstring.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87051bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_scanstring.py
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+import sys
+import decimal
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json.decoder
+
+class TestScanString(TestCase):
+    def test_py_scanstring(self):
+        self._test_scanstring(json.decoder.py_scanstring)
+
+    def test_c_scanstring(self):
+        self._test_scanstring(json.decoder.c_scanstring)
+
+    def _test_scanstring(self, scanstring):
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('"z\\ud834\\udd20x"', 1, None, True),
+            (u'z\U0001d120x', 16))
+
+        if sys.maxunicode == 65535:
+            self.assertEquals(
+                scanstring(u'"z\U0001d120x"', 1, None, True),
+                (u'z\U0001d120x', 6))
+        else:
+            self.assertEquals(
+                scanstring(u'"z\U0001d120x"', 1, None, True),
+                (u'z\U0001d120x', 5))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('"\\u007b"', 1, None, True),
+            (u'{', 8))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('"A JSON payload should be an object or array, not a string."', 1, None, True),
+            (u'A JSON payload should be an object or array, not a string.', 60))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('["Unclosed array"', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Unclosed array', 17))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('["extra comma",]', 2, None, True),
+            (u'extra comma', 14))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('["double extra comma",,]', 2, None, True),
+            (u'double extra comma', 21))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('["Comma after the close"],', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Comma after the close', 24))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('["Extra close"]]', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Extra close', 14))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Extra comma": true,}', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Extra comma', 14))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Extra value after close": true} "misplaced quoted value"', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Extra value after close', 26))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Illegal expression": 1 + 2}', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Illegal expression', 21))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Illegal invocation": alert()}', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Illegal invocation', 21))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Numbers cannot have leading zeroes": 013}', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Numbers cannot have leading zeroes', 37))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Numbers cannot be hex": 0x14}', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Numbers cannot be hex', 24))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[["Too deep"]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]', 21, None, True),
+            (u'Too deep', 30))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Missing colon" null}', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Missing colon', 16))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Double colon":: null}', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Double colon', 15))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('{"Comma instead of colon", null}', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Comma instead of colon', 25))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('["Colon instead of comma": false]', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Colon instead of comma', 25))
+
+        self.assertEquals(
+            scanstring('["Bad value", truth]', 2, None, True),
+            (u'Bad value', 12))
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_separators.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_separators.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32db341
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_separators.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import textwrap
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+
+class TestSeparators(TestCase):
+    def test_separators(self):
+        h = [['blorpie'], ['whoops'], [], 'd-shtaeou', 'd-nthiouh', 'i-vhbjkhnth',
+             {'nifty': 87}, {'field': 'yes', 'morefield': False} ]
+
+        expect = textwrap.dedent("""\
+        [
+          [
+            "blorpie"
+          ] ,
+          [
+            "whoops"
+          ] ,
+          [] ,
+          "d-shtaeou" ,
+          "d-nthiouh" ,
+          "i-vhbjkhnth" ,
+          {
+            "nifty" : 87
+          } ,
+          {
+            "field" : "yes" ,
+            "morefield" : false
+          }
+        ]""")
+
+
+        d1 = json.dumps(h)
+        d2 = json.dumps(h, indent=2, sort_keys=True, separators=(' ,', ' : '))
+
+        h1 = json.loads(d1)
+        h2 = json.loads(d2)
+
+        self.assertEquals(h1, h)
+        self.assertEquals(h2, h)
+        self.assertEquals(d2, expect)
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_speedups.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_speedups.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ff9a38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_speedups.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import decimal
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+from json import decoder
+from json import encoder
+
+class TestSpeedups(TestCase):
+    def test_scanstring(self):
+        self.assertEquals(decoder.scanstring.__module__, "_json")
+        self.assert_(decoder.scanstring is decoder.c_scanstring)
+
+    def test_encode_basestring_ascii(self):
+        self.assertEquals(encoder.encode_basestring_ascii.__module__, "_json")
+        self.assert_(encoder.encode_basestring_ascii is
+                          encoder.c_encode_basestring_ascii)
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_unicode.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_unicode.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ac4541
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_unicode.py
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import json
+
+class TestUnicode(TestCase):
+    def test_encoding1(self):
+        encoder = json.JSONEncoder(encoding='utf-8')
+        u = u'\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}'
+        s = u.encode('utf-8')
+        ju = encoder.encode(u)
+        js = encoder.encode(s)
+        self.assertEquals(ju, js)
+
+    def test_encoding2(self):
+        u = u'\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}'
+        s = u.encode('utf-8')
+        ju = json.dumps(u, encoding='utf-8')
+        js = json.dumps(s, encoding='utf-8')
+        self.assertEquals(ju, js)
+
+    def test_encoding3(self):
+        u = u'\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}'
+        j = json.dumps(u)
+        self.assertEquals(j, '"\\u03b1\\u03a9"')
+
+    def test_encoding4(self):
+        u = u'\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}'
+        j = json.dumps([u])
+        self.assertEquals(j, '["\\u03b1\\u03a9"]')
+
+    def test_encoding5(self):
+        u = u'\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}'
+        j = json.dumps(u, ensure_ascii=False)
+        self.assertEquals(j, u'"{0}"'.format(u))
+
+    def test_encoding6(self):
+        u = u'\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}'
+        j = json.dumps([u], ensure_ascii=False)
+        self.assertEquals(j, u'["{0}"]'.format(u))
+
+    def test_big_unicode_encode(self):
+        u = u'\U0001d120'
+        self.assertEquals(json.dumps(u), '"\\ud834\\udd20"')
+        self.assertEquals(json.dumps(u, ensure_ascii=False), u'"\U0001d120"')
+
+    def test_big_unicode_decode(self):
+        u = u'z\U0001d120x'
+        self.assertEquals(json.loads('"' + u + '"'), u)
+        self.assertEquals(json.loads('"z\\ud834\\udd20x"'), u)
+
+    def test_unicode_decode(self):
+        for i in range(0, 0xd7ff):
+            u = unichr(i)
+            js = '"\\u{0:04x}"'.format(i)
+            self.assertEquals(json.loads(js), u)
diff --git a/Lib/json/tool.py b/Lib/json/tool.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cbd258c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/json/tool.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+r"""Command-line tool to validate and pretty-print JSON
+
+Usage::
+
+    $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -mjson.tool
+    {
+        "json": "obj"
+    }
+    $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -mjson.tool
+    Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
+"""
+import sys
+import json
+
+def main():
+    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+        infile = sys.stdin
+        outfile = sys.stdout
+    elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
+        infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
+        outfile = sys.stdout
+    elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
+        infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
+        outfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'wb')
+    else:
+        raise SystemExit("{0} [infile [outfile]]".format(sys.argv[0]))
+    try:
+        obj = json.load(infile)
+    except ValueError, e:
+        raise SystemExit(e)
+    json.dump(obj, outfile, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+    outfile.write('\n')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_json.py b/Lib/test/test_json.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b8f3de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_json.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+"""Tests for json.
+
+The tests for json are defined in the json.tests package;
+the test_suite() function there returns a test suite that's ready to
+be run.
+"""
+
+import json.tests
+import test.test_support
+
+
+def test_main():
+    test.test_support.run_unittest(json.tests.test_suite())
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_main()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 15e3062..9bf6039 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and contributed
+  by Bob Ippolito.
+
 - Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
 
 - Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst
diff --git a/Modules/_json.c b/Modules/_json.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..deee1e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/_json.c
@@ -0,0 +1,609 @@
+#include "Python.h"
+
+#define DEFAULT_ENCODING "utf-8"
+#define S_CHAR(c) (c >= ' ' && c <= '~' && c != '\\' && c != '"')
+#define MIN_EXPANSION 6
+
+#ifdef Py_UNICODE_WIDE
+#define MAX_EXPANSION (2 * MIN_EXPANSION)
+#else
+#define MAX_EXPANSION MIN_EXPANSION
+#endif
+
+static Py_ssize_t
+ascii_escape_char(Py_UNICODE c, char *output, Py_ssize_t chars)
+{
+    Py_UNICODE x;
+    output[chars++] = '\\';
+    switch (c) {
+        case '\\': output[chars++] = (char)c; break;
+        case '"': output[chars++] = (char)c; break;
+        case '\b': output[chars++] = 'b'; break;
+        case '\f': output[chars++] = 'f'; break;
+        case '\n': output[chars++] = 'n'; break;
+        case '\r': output[chars++] = 'r'; break;
+        case '\t': output[chars++] = 't'; break;
+        default:
+#ifdef Py_UNICODE_WIDE
+            if (c >= 0x10000) {
+                /* UTF-16 surrogate pair */
+                Py_UNICODE v = c - 0x10000;
+                c = 0xd800 | ((v >> 10) & 0x3ff);
+                output[chars++] = 'u';
+                x = (c & 0xf000) >> 12;
+                output[chars++] = (x < 10) ? '0' + x : 'a' + (x - 10);
+                x = (c & 0x0f00) >> 8;
+                output[chars++] = (x < 10) ? '0' + x : 'a' + (x - 10);
+                x = (c & 0x00f0) >> 4;
+                output[chars++] = (x < 10) ? '0' + x : 'a' + (x - 10);
+                x = (c & 0x000f);
+                output[chars++] = (x < 10) ? '0' + x : 'a' + (x - 10);
+                c = 0xdc00 | (v & 0x3ff);
+                output[chars++] = '\\';
+            }
+#endif
+            output[chars++] = 'u';
+            x = (c & 0xf000) >> 12;
+            output[chars++] = (x < 10) ? '0' + x : 'a' + (x - 10);
+            x = (c & 0x0f00) >> 8;
+            output[chars++] = (x < 10) ? '0' + x : 'a' + (x - 10);
+            x = (c & 0x00f0) >> 4;
+            output[chars++] = (x < 10) ? '0' + x : 'a' + (x - 10);
+            x = (c & 0x000f);
+            output[chars++] = (x < 10) ? '0' + x : 'a' + (x - 10);
+    }
+    return chars;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+ascii_escape_unicode(PyObject *pystr)
+{
+    Py_ssize_t i;
+    Py_ssize_t input_chars;
+    Py_ssize_t output_size;
+    Py_ssize_t chars;
+    PyObject *rval;
+    char *output;
+    Py_UNICODE *input_unicode;
+
+    input_chars = PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(pystr);
+    input_unicode = PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(pystr);
+    /* One char input can be up to 6 chars output, estimate 4 of these */
+    output_size = 2 + (MIN_EXPANSION * 4) + input_chars;
+    rval = PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, output_size);
+    if (rval == NULL) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    output = PyString_AS_STRING(rval);
+    chars = 0;
+    output[chars++] = '"';
+    for (i = 0; i < input_chars; i++) {
+        Py_UNICODE c = input_unicode[i];
+        if (S_CHAR(c)) {
+            output[chars++] = (char)c;
+        }
+	else {
+            chars = ascii_escape_char(c, output, chars);
+        }
+        if (output_size - chars < (1 + MAX_EXPANSION)) {
+            /* There's more than four, so let's resize by a lot */
+            output_size *= 2;
+            /* This is an upper bound */
+            if (output_size > 2 + (input_chars * MAX_EXPANSION)) {
+                output_size = 2 + (input_chars * MAX_EXPANSION);
+            }
+            if (_PyString_Resize(&rval, output_size) == -1) {
+                return NULL;
+            }
+            output = PyString_AS_STRING(rval);
+        }
+    }
+    output[chars++] = '"';
+    if (_PyString_Resize(&rval, chars) == -1) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    return rval;
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+ascii_escape_str(PyObject *pystr)
+{
+    Py_ssize_t i;
+    Py_ssize_t input_chars;
+    Py_ssize_t output_size;
+    Py_ssize_t chars;
+    PyObject *rval;
+    char *output;
+    char *input_str;
+
+    input_chars = PyString_GET_SIZE(pystr);
+    input_str = PyString_AS_STRING(pystr);
+    /* One char input can be up to 6 chars output, estimate 4 of these */
+    output_size = 2 + (MIN_EXPANSION * 4) + input_chars;
+    rval = PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, output_size);
+    if (rval == NULL) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    output = PyString_AS_STRING(rval);
+    chars = 0;
+    output[chars++] = '"';
+    for (i = 0; i < input_chars; i++) {
+        Py_UNICODE c = (Py_UNICODE)input_str[i];
+        if (S_CHAR(c)) {
+            output[chars++] = (char)c;
+        }
+	else if (c > 0x7F) {
+            /* We hit a non-ASCII character, bail to unicode mode */
+            PyObject *uni;
+            Py_DECREF(rval);
+            uni = PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(input_str, input_chars, "strict");
+            if (uni == NULL) {
+                return NULL;
+            }
+            rval = ascii_escape_unicode(uni);
+            Py_DECREF(uni);
+            return rval;
+        }
+	else {
+            chars = ascii_escape_char(c, output, chars);
+        }
+        /* An ASCII char can't possibly expand to a surrogate! */
+        if (output_size - chars < (1 + MIN_EXPANSION)) {
+            /* There's more than four, so let's resize by a lot */
+            output_size *= 2;
+            if (output_size > 2 + (input_chars * MIN_EXPANSION)) {
+                output_size = 2 + (input_chars * MIN_EXPANSION);
+            }
+            if (_PyString_Resize(&rval, output_size) == -1) {
+                return NULL;
+            }
+            output = PyString_AS_STRING(rval);
+        }
+    }
+    output[chars++] = '"';
+    if (_PyString_Resize(&rval, chars) == -1) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    return rval;
+}
+
+void
+raise_errmsg(char *msg, PyObject *s, Py_ssize_t end)
+{
+    static PyObject *errmsg_fn = NULL;
+    PyObject *pymsg;
+    if (errmsg_fn == NULL) {
+        PyObject *decoder = PyImport_ImportModule("json.decoder");
+        if (decoder == NULL)
+            return;
+        errmsg_fn = PyObject_GetAttrString(decoder, "errmsg");
+        if (errmsg_fn == NULL)
+            return;
+        Py_XDECREF(decoder);
+    }
+    pymsg = PyObject_CallFunction(errmsg_fn, "(zOn)", msg, s, end);
+    PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_ValueError, pymsg);
+    Py_DECREF(pymsg);
+/*
+
+def linecol(doc, pos):
+    lineno = doc.count('\n', 0, pos) + 1
+    if lineno == 1:
+        colno = pos
+    else:
+        colno = pos - doc.rindex('\n', 0, pos)
+    return lineno, colno
+
+def errmsg(msg, doc, pos, end=None):
+    lineno, colno = linecol(doc, pos)
+    if end is None:
+        return '%s: line %d column %d (char %d)' % (msg, lineno, colno, pos)
+    endlineno, endcolno = linecol(doc, end)
+    return '%s: line %d column %d - line %d column %d (char %d - %d)' % (
+        msg, lineno, colno, endlineno, endcolno, pos, end)
+
+*/
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+join_list_unicode(PyObject *lst)
+{
+    static PyObject *ustr = NULL;
+    static PyObject *joinstr = NULL;
+    if (ustr == NULL) {
+        Py_UNICODE c = 0;
+        ustr = PyUnicode_FromUnicode(&c, 0);
+    }
+    if (joinstr == NULL) {
+        joinstr = PyString_FromString("join");
+    }
+    if (joinstr == NULL || ustr == NULL) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    return PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs(ustr, joinstr, lst, NULL);
+}
+
+static PyObject *
+scanstring_str(PyObject *pystr, Py_ssize_t end, char *encoding, int strict)
+{
+    PyObject *rval;
+    Py_ssize_t len = PyString_GET_SIZE(pystr);
+    Py_ssize_t begin = end - 1;
+    Py_ssize_t next = begin;
+    char *buf = PyString_AS_STRING(pystr);
+    PyObject *chunks = PyList_New(0);
+    if (chunks == NULL) {
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    while (1) {
+        /* Find the end of the string or the next escape */
+        Py_UNICODE c = 0;
+        PyObject *chunk = NULL;
+        for (next = end; next < len; next++) {
+            c = buf[next];
+            if (c == '"' || c == '\\') {
+                break;
+            }
+            else if (strict && c <= 0x1f) {
+                raise_errmsg("Invalid control character at", pystr, begin);
+                goto bail;
+            }
+        }
+        if (!(c == '"' || c == '\\')) {
+            raise_errmsg("Unterminated string starting at", pystr, begin);
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        /* Pick up this chunk if it's not zero length */
+        if (next != end) {
+            PyObject *strchunk = PyBuffer_FromMemory(&buf[end], next - end);
+            if (strchunk == NULL) {
+                goto bail;
+            }
+            chunk = PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject(strchunk, encoding, NULL);
+            Py_DECREF(strchunk);
+            if (chunk == NULL) {
+                goto bail;
+            }
+            if (PyList_Append(chunks, chunk)) {
+                goto bail;
+            }
+            Py_DECREF(chunk);
+        }
+        next++;
+        if (c == '"') {
+            end = next;
+            break;
+        }
+        if (next == len) {
+            raise_errmsg("Unterminated string starting at", pystr, begin);
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        c = buf[next];
+        if (c != 'u') {
+            /* Non-unicode backslash escapes */
+            end = next + 1;
+            switch (c) {
+                case '"': break;
+                case '\\': break;
+                case '/': break;
+                case 'b': c = '\b'; break;
+                case 'f': c = '\f'; break;
+                case 'n': c = '\n'; break;
+                case 'r': c = '\r'; break;
+                case 't': c = '\t'; break;
+                default: c = 0;
+            }
+            if (c == 0) {
+                raise_errmsg("Invalid \\escape", pystr, end - 2);
+                goto bail;
+            }
+        }
+        else {
+            c = 0;
+            next++;
+            end = next + 4;
+            if (end >= len) {
+                raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX escape", pystr, next - 1);
+                goto bail;
+            }
+            /* Decode 4 hex digits */
+            for (; next < end; next++) {
+                Py_ssize_t shl = (end - next - 1) << 2;
+                Py_UNICODE digit = buf[next];
+                switch (digit) {
+                    case '0': case '1': case '2': case '3': case '4':
+                    case '5': case '6': case '7': case '8': case '9':
+                        c |= (digit - '0') << shl; break;
+                    case 'a': case 'b': case 'c': case 'd': case 'e':
+                    case 'f':
+                        c |= (digit - 'a' + 10) << shl; break;
+                    case 'A': case 'B': case 'C': case 'D': case 'E':
+                    case 'F':
+                        c |= (digit - 'A' + 10) << shl; break;
+                    default:
+                        raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX escape", pystr, end - 5);
+                        goto bail;
+                }
+            }
+#ifdef Py_UNICODE_WIDE
+            /* Surrogate pair */
+            if (c >= 0xd800 && c <= 0xdbff) {
+                Py_UNICODE c2 = 0;
+                if (end + 6 >= len) {
+                    raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX\\uXXXX surrogate pair", pystr,
+                        end - 5);
+                }
+                if (buf[next++] != '\\' || buf[next++] != 'u') {
+                    raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX\\uXXXX surrogate pair", pystr,
+                        end - 5);
+                }
+                end += 6;
+                /* Decode 4 hex digits */
+                for (; next < end; next++) {
+                    Py_ssize_t shl = (end - next - 1) << 2;
+                    Py_UNICODE digit = buf[next];
+                    switch (digit) {
+                        case '0': case '1': case '2': case '3': case '4':
+                        case '5': case '6': case '7': case '8': case '9':
+                            c2 |= (digit - '0') << shl; break;
+                        case 'a': case 'b': case 'c': case 'd': case 'e':
+                        case 'f':
+                            c2 |= (digit - 'a' + 10) << shl; break;
+                        case 'A': case 'B': case 'C': case 'D': case 'E':
+                        case 'F':
+                            c2 |= (digit - 'A' + 10) << shl; break;
+                        default:
+                            raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX escape", pystr, end - 5);
+                            goto bail;
+                    }
+                }
+                c = 0x10000 + (((c - 0xd800) << 10) | (c2 - 0xdc00));
+            }
+#endif
+        }
+        chunk = PyUnicode_FromUnicode(&c, 1);
+        if (chunk == NULL) {
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        if (PyList_Append(chunks, chunk)) {
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        Py_DECREF(chunk);
+    }
+
+    rval = join_list_unicode(chunks);
+    if (rval == NULL) {
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    Py_DECREF(chunks);
+    chunks = NULL;
+    return Py_BuildValue("(Nn)", rval, end);
+bail:
+    Py_XDECREF(chunks);
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+
+static PyObject *
+scanstring_unicode(PyObject *pystr, Py_ssize_t end, int strict)
+{
+    PyObject *rval;
+    Py_ssize_t len = PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(pystr);
+    Py_ssize_t begin = end - 1;
+    Py_ssize_t next = begin;
+    const Py_UNICODE *buf = PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(pystr);
+    PyObject *chunks = PyList_New(0);
+    if (chunks == NULL) {
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    while (1) {
+        /* Find the end of the string or the next escape */
+        Py_UNICODE c = 0;
+        PyObject *chunk = NULL;
+        for (next = end; next < len; next++) {
+            c = buf[next];
+            if (c == '"' || c == '\\') {
+                break;
+            }
+            else if (strict && c <= 0x1f) {
+                raise_errmsg("Invalid control character at", pystr, begin);
+                goto bail;
+            }
+        }
+        if (!(c == '"' || c == '\\')) {
+            raise_errmsg("Unterminated string starting at", pystr, begin);
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        /* Pick up this chunk if it's not zero length */
+        if (next != end) {
+            chunk = PyUnicode_FromUnicode(&buf[end], next - end);
+            if (chunk == NULL) {
+                goto bail;
+            }
+            if (PyList_Append(chunks, chunk)) {
+                goto bail;
+            }
+            Py_DECREF(chunk);
+        }
+        next++;
+        if (c == '"') {
+            end = next;
+            break;
+        }
+        if (next == len) {
+            raise_errmsg("Unterminated string starting at", pystr, begin);
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        c = buf[next];
+        if (c != 'u') {
+            /* Non-unicode backslash escapes */
+            end = next + 1;
+            switch (c) {
+                case '"': break;
+                case '\\': break;
+                case '/': break;
+                case 'b': c = '\b'; break;
+                case 'f': c = '\f'; break;
+                case 'n': c = '\n'; break;
+                case 'r': c = '\r'; break;
+                case 't': c = '\t'; break;
+                default: c = 0;
+            }
+            if (c == 0) {
+                raise_errmsg("Invalid \\escape", pystr, end - 2);
+                goto bail;
+            }
+        }
+        else {
+            c = 0;
+            next++;
+            end = next + 4;
+            if (end >= len) {
+                raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX escape", pystr, next - 1);
+                goto bail;
+            }
+            /* Decode 4 hex digits */
+            for (; next < end; next++) {
+                Py_ssize_t shl = (end - next - 1) << 2;
+                Py_UNICODE digit = buf[next];
+                switch (digit) {
+                    case '0': case '1': case '2': case '3': case '4':
+                    case '5': case '6': case '7': case '8': case '9':
+                        c |= (digit - '0') << shl; break;
+                    case 'a': case 'b': case 'c': case 'd': case 'e':
+                    case 'f':
+                        c |= (digit - 'a' + 10) << shl; break;
+                    case 'A': case 'B': case 'C': case 'D': case 'E':
+                    case 'F':
+                        c |= (digit - 'A' + 10) << shl; break;
+                    default:
+                        raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX escape", pystr, end - 5);
+                        goto bail;
+                }
+            }
+#ifdef Py_UNICODE_WIDE
+            /* Surrogate pair */
+            if (c >= 0xd800 && c <= 0xdbff) {
+                Py_UNICODE c2 = 0;
+                if (end + 6 >= len) {
+                    raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX\\uXXXX surrogate pair", pystr,
+                        end - 5);
+                }
+                if (buf[next++] != '\\' || buf[next++] != 'u') {
+                    raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX\\uXXXX surrogate pair", pystr,
+                        end - 5);
+                }
+                end += 6;
+                /* Decode 4 hex digits */
+                for (; next < end; next++) {
+                    Py_ssize_t shl = (end - next - 1) << 2;
+                    Py_UNICODE digit = buf[next];
+                    switch (digit) {
+                        case '0': case '1': case '2': case '3': case '4':
+                        case '5': case '6': case '7': case '8': case '9':
+                            c2 |= (digit - '0') << shl; break;
+                        case 'a': case 'b': case 'c': case 'd': case 'e':
+                        case 'f':
+                            c2 |= (digit - 'a' + 10) << shl; break;
+                        case 'A': case 'B': case 'C': case 'D': case 'E':
+                        case 'F':
+                            c2 |= (digit - 'A' + 10) << shl; break;
+                        default:
+                            raise_errmsg("Invalid \\uXXXX escape", pystr, end - 5);
+                            goto bail;
+                    }
+                }
+                c = 0x10000 + (((c - 0xd800) << 10) | (c2 - 0xdc00));
+            }
+#endif
+        }
+        chunk = PyUnicode_FromUnicode(&c, 1);
+        if (chunk == NULL) {
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        if (PyList_Append(chunks, chunk)) {
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        Py_DECREF(chunk);
+    }
+
+    rval = join_list_unicode(chunks);
+    if (rval == NULL) {
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    Py_DECREF(chunks);
+    chunks = NULL;
+    return Py_BuildValue("(Nn)", rval, end);
+bail:
+    Py_XDECREF(chunks);
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(pydoc_scanstring,
+"scanstring(basestring, end, encoding) -> (str, end)\n");
+
+static PyObject *
+py_scanstring(PyObject* self, PyObject *args)
+{
+    PyObject *pystr;
+    Py_ssize_t end;
+    char *encoding = NULL;
+    int strict = 0;
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "On|zi:scanstring", &pystr, &end, &encoding, &strict)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    if (encoding == NULL) {
+        encoding = DEFAULT_ENCODING;
+    }
+    if (PyString_Check(pystr)) {
+        return scanstring_str(pystr, end, encoding, strict);
+    }
+    else if (PyUnicode_Check(pystr)) {
+        return scanstring_unicode(pystr, end, strict);
+    }
+    else {
+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, 
+                     "first argument must be a string or unicode, not %.80s",
+                     Py_TYPE(pystr)->tp_name);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+}
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(pydoc_encode_basestring_ascii,
+"encode_basestring_ascii(basestring) -> str\n");
+
+static PyObject *
+py_encode_basestring_ascii(PyObject* self, PyObject *pystr)
+{
+    /* METH_O */
+    if (PyString_Check(pystr)) {
+        return ascii_escape_str(pystr);
+    }
+    else if (PyUnicode_Check(pystr)) {
+        return ascii_escape_unicode(pystr);
+    }
+    else {
+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, 
+                     "first argument must be a string or unicode, not %.80s",
+                     Py_TYPE(pystr)->tp_name);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+}
+
+static PyMethodDef json_methods[] = {
+    {"encode_basestring_ascii", (PyCFunction)py_encode_basestring_ascii,
+     METH_O, pydoc_encode_basestring_ascii},
+    {"scanstring", (PyCFunction)py_scanstring, METH_VARARGS,
+     pydoc_scanstring},
+    {NULL, NULL, 0, NULL}
+};
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(module_doc,
+"json speedups\n");
+
+void
+init_json(void)
+{
+    PyObject *m;
+    m = Py_InitModule3("_json", json_methods, module_doc);
+}
diff --git a/PC/VC6/pythoncore.dsp b/PC/VC6/pythoncore.dsp
index 3d80857..803a225 100644
--- a/PC/VC6/pythoncore.dsp
+++ b/PC/VC6/pythoncore.dsp
@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ SOURCE=..\..\Modules\_hotshot.c
 # End Source File

 # Begin Source File

 

+SOURCE=..\..\Modules\_json.c

+# End Source File

+# Begin Source File

+

 SOURCE=..\..\Modules\_localemodule.c

 # End Source File

 # Begin Source File

diff --git a/PC/VS7.1/pythoncore.vcproj b/PC/VS7.1/pythoncore.vcproj
index 4d7943b..ce736f3 100644
--- a/PC/VS7.1/pythoncore.vcproj
+++ b/PC/VS7.1/pythoncore.vcproj
@@ -380,6 +380,9 @@
 			RelativePath="..\..\Modules\_hotshot.c">
 		</File>
 		<File
+			RelativePath="..\..\Modules\json.c">
+		</File>
+		<File
 			RelativePath="..\..\Modules\_localemodule.c">
 		</File>
 		<File
diff --git a/PC/VS8.0/pythoncore.vcproj b/PC/VS8.0/pythoncore.vcproj
index 624cf4d..45deec7 100644
--- a/PC/VS8.0/pythoncore.vcproj
+++ b/PC/VS8.0/pythoncore.vcproj
@@ -1003,6 +1003,10 @@
 				>

 			</File>

 			<File

+				RelativePath="..\..\Modules\_json.c"

+				>

+			</File>

+			<File

 				RelativePath="..\..\Modules\_localemodule.c"

 				>

 			</File>

diff --git a/PC/config.c b/PC/config.c
index 0d19caf..f128382 100644
--- a/PC/config.c
+++ b/PC/config.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ extern void init_struct(void);
 extern void initdatetime(void);
 extern void init_fileio(void);
 extern void init_functools(void);
+extern void init_json(void);
 extern void initzlib(void);
 
 extern void init_multibytecodec(void);
@@ -132,6 +133,7 @@ struct _inittab _PyImport_Inittab[] = {
 	{"datetime", initdatetime},
 	{"_fileio", init_fileio},
 	{"_functools", init_functools},
+	{"_json", init_json},
 
 	{"xxsubtype", initxxsubtype},
 	{"zipimport", initzipimport},
diff --git a/PCbuild/pcbuild.sln b/PCbuild/pcbuild.sln
index d534d7e..61090b4 100644
--- a/PCbuild/pcbuild.sln
+++ b/PCbuild/pcbuild.sln
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ Project("{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}") = "make_buildinfo", "make_buil
 EndProject
 Project("{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}") = "Solution Items", "Solution Items", "{553EC33E-9816-4996-A660-5D6186A0B0B3}"
 	ProjectSection(SolutionItems) = preProject
-		..\Modules\getbuildinfo.c = ..\Modules\getbuildinfo.c
 		readme.txt = readme.txt
 	EndProjectSection
 EndProject
diff --git a/PCbuild/pythoncore.vcproj b/PCbuild/pythoncore.vcproj
index d8c1cdf..583a32b 100644
--- a/PCbuild/pythoncore.vcproj
+++ b/PCbuild/pythoncore.vcproj
@@ -1007,6 +1007,10 @@
 				>
 			</File>
 			<File
+				RelativePath="..\Modules\_json.c"
+				>
+			</File>
+			<File
 				RelativePath="..\Modules\_localemodule.c"
 				>
 			</File>
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5df8124..d7fac2f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -438,6 +438,8 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         exts.append( Extension("_fileio", ["_fileio.c"]) )
         # _functools
         exts.append( Extension("_functools", ["_functoolsmodule.c"]) )
+        # _json speedups
+        exts.append( Extension("_json", ["_json.c"]) )
         # Python C API test module
         exts.append( Extension('_testcapi', ['_testcapimodule.c']) )
         # profilers (_lsprof is for cProfile.py)