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

[Massimo Di Pierro]

It would also be nice to have a common interface to all modules that  
do serialization. For example pickle, cPickle, marshall has dumps, so  
json should also have dumps.

Massimo

On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Mark Ramm wrote:

>>  Well, so fix this. How hard can it be?
>
> A google search for "jsonlib rfc"  turns up this article:
>
> http://jmillikin.blogspot.com/2008/02/python-json-catastrophe.html
>
> And it looks like the two issues with simplejson are:
>
> 1) decoding JSON with unicode code-points outside the Basic  
> Multilingual Plane
> 2) Decoding the json 1.1 as a python float rather than a decimal
>
> I think the author could very well be incorrect in believing that the
> spec requires using a decimal, so that just leaves the Unicode issue,
> which isn't very clearly defined in the article, but ought to be
> reasonably easy to fix.
>
> The spec isn't as clear as it could be about a lot of issues, but I've
> had no problems with simplejson and interoperability with the various
> javascript libraries.   I've also used simplejson with one or two of
> the ruby json libraries, flex's json lib, and a couple of libraries
> for other languages, with no particular issues.   That's not to say
> there are no bugs, but I don't think there are too many issues buried
> in there.
>
> --Mark
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