problems decoding json objects

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.9998.1400063958.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> I guess JSON doesn't have tuples

JSON has sequences, which both Python lists and tuples serialize as 
(losing the distinction between them).  In the other direction, JSON 
sequences typically unpack as lists, but I think that's just convention.  
There might be json packages which unpack them as tuples.