[Web-SIG] Time a for JSON parser in the standard library?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:23 PM, James Bennett <ubernostrum at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Mark Ramm <mark.mchristensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  I would definitely support the incusion of a JSON library in the
>  >  standard lib.   And, I think that it should be simplejson which is
>  >  used by TurboGears, Pylons, and bundled with Django.
>
>  I'd tentatively agree, though I recall seeing a post not long ago
>  (which I am currently unable to find) from the author of jsonlib
>  lamenting the fact that most of the other JSON modules for Python had
>  various significant inconsistencies with the RFC. While authors of
>  competing tools should be taken with a grain of salt, I do think
>  compliance with the spec is an important factor for any particular
>  module that might be blessed with stdlib membership, and so should
>  play a bigger role in any such decision than mere benchmark speed.

Well, so fix this. How hard can it be?

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