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-rw-r--r--Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py3
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
-rw-r--r--Modules/_json.c2
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py b/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py
index 95088b4..0821595 100644
--- a/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py
+++ b/Lib/json/tests/test_decode.py
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ class TestDecode(TestCase):
def test_empty_objects(self):
self.assertEqual(json.loads('{}'), {})
self.assertEqual(json.loads('[]'), [])
- self.assertEqual(json.loads('""'), "")
+ self.assertEqual(json.loads('""'), u"")
+ self.assertIsInstance(json.loads('""'), unicode)
def test_object_pairs_hook(self):
s = '{"xkd":1, "kcw":2, "art":3, "hxm":4, "qrt":5, "pad":6, "hoy":7}'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b14a6cb..743f10a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
+
- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
diff --git a/Modules/_json.c b/Modules/_json.c
index 71d3e58..8d63edb 100644
--- a/Modules/_json.c
+++ b/Modules/_json.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ scanstring_str(PyObject *pystr, Py_ssize_t end, char *encoding, int strict, Py_s
Py_DECREF(chunk);
}
- rval = join_list_string(chunks);
+ rval = join_list_unicode(chunks);
if (rval == NULL) {
goto bail;
}