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diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py
index 1ccde87..6a18518 100644
--- a/Lib/json/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-r"""A simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder and decoder
-
-JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) <http://json.org> is a subset of
+r"""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.
+:mod:`json` exposes an API familiar to users of the standard library
+:mod:`marshal` and :mod:`pickle` modules. It is the externally maintained
+version of the :mod:`json` library contained in Python 2.6, but maintains
+compatibility with Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 and (currently) has
+significant performance advantages, even without using the optional C
+extension for speedups.
Encoding basic Python object hierarchies::
@@ -32,23 +34,28 @@ Compact encoding::
>>> 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)::
+Pretty printing::
>>> import json
- >>> print(repr(json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4)))
- '{\n "4": 5, \n "6": 7\n}'
+ >>> s = json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+ >>> print('\n'.join([l.rstrip() for l in s.splitlines()]))
+ {
+ "4": 5,
+ "6": 7
+ }
Decoding JSON::
>>> import json
- >>> json.loads('["foo", {"bar":["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]')
- ['foo', {'bar': ['baz', None, 1.0, 2]}]
- >>> json.loads('"\\"foo\\bar"')
- '"foo\x08ar'
+ >>> obj = ['foo', {'bar': ['baz', None, 1.0, 2]}]
+ >>> json.loads('["foo", {"bar":["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]') == obj
+ True
+ >>> json.loads('"\\"foo\\bar"') == '"foo\x08ar'
+ True
>>> from io import StringIO
>>> io = StringIO('["streaming API"]')
- >>> json.load(io)
- ['streaming API']
+ >>> json.load(io)[0] == 'streaming API'
+ True
Specializing JSON object decoding::
@@ -61,43 +68,36 @@ Specializing JSON object decoding::
>>> 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')
+ >>> from decimal import Decimal
+ >>> json.loads('1.1', parse_float=Decimal) == Decimal('1.1')
+ True
-Extending JSONEncoder::
+Specializing JSON object encoding::
>>> 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)
+ >>> def encode_complex(obj):
+ ... if isinstance(obj, complex):
+ ... return [obj.real, obj.imag]
+ ... raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
...
- >>> dumps(2 + 1j, cls=ComplexEncoder)
+ >>> json.dumps(2 + 1j, default=encode_complex)
+ '[2.0, 1.0]'
+ >>> json.JSONEncoder(default=encode_complex).encode(2 + 1j)
'[2.0, 1.0]'
- >>> ComplexEncoder().encode(2 + 1j)
+ >>> ''.join(json.JSONEncoder(default=encode_complex).iterencode(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::
+Using json.tool from the shell to validate and pretty-print::
- $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -mjson.tool
+ $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -m json.tool
{
"json": "obj"
}
- $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -mjson.tool
+ $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m json.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'
+__version__ = '2.0.9'
__all__ = [
'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
'JSONDecoder', 'JSONEncoder',
@@ -115,45 +115,43 @@ _default_encoder = JSONEncoder(
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):
+ 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 ``skipkeys`` is true then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
+ (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be
+ skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
- If ``ensure_ascii`` is ``False``, then the some chunks written to ``fp``
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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 ``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.
@@ -163,17 +161,17 @@ def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
"""
# cached encoder
- if (skipkeys is False and ensure_ascii is True and
- check_circular is True and allow_nan is True and
+ if (not skipkeys and ensure_ascii and
+ check_circular and allow_nan and
cls is None and indent is None and separators is None and
- encoding == 'utf-8' and default is None and not kw):
+ 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,
+ separators=separators,
default=default, **kw).iterencode(obj)
# could accelerate with writelines in some versions of Python, at
# a debuggability cost
@@ -183,22 +181,22 @@ def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
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):
+ 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 ``skipkeys`` is false then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
+ (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be
+ skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
- If ``ensure_ascii`` is ``False``, then the return value will be a
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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``).
@@ -212,8 +210,6 @@ def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
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.
@@ -223,35 +219,27 @@ def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
"""
# cached encoder
- if (skipkeys is False and ensure_ascii is True and
- check_circular is True and allow_nan is True and
+ if (not skipkeys and ensure_ascii and
+ check_circular and allow_nan and
cls is None and indent is None and separators is None and
- encoding == 'utf-8' and default is None and not kw):
+ 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,
+ separators=separators, default=default,
**kw).encode(obj)
-_default_decoder = JSONDecoder(encoding=None, object_hook=None,
- object_pairs_hook=None)
+_default_decoder = JSONDecoder(object_hook=None, object_pairs_hook=None)
-def load(fp, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
+def load(fp, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=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()``
+ """Deserialize ``fp`` (a ``.read()``-supporting file-like object containing
+ a JSON document) to a Python object.
``object_hook`` is an optional function that will be called with the
result of any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of
@@ -263,21 +251,16 @@ def load(fp, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
"""
return loads(fp.read(),
- encoding=encoding, cls=cls, object_hook=object_hook,
+ cls=cls, object_hook=object_hook,
parse_float=parse_float, parse_int=parse_int,
parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
def loads(s, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw):
- """Deserialize ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` instance containing a JSON
+ """Deserialize ``s`` (a ``str`` 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
@@ -302,7 +285,7 @@ def loads(s, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
kwarg.
"""
- if (cls is None and encoding is None and object_hook is None and
+ if (cls is None and object_hook is None and
parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
@@ -318,4 +301,4 @@ def loads(s, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
kw['parse_int'] = parse_int
if parse_constant is not None:
kw['parse_constant'] = parse_constant
- return cls(encoding=encoding, **kw).decode(s)
+ return cls(**kw).decode(s)