[New-bugs-announce] [issue7130] json uses sre_* modules which may not work on alternate implemenations

[Dino Viehland]

New submission from Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com>:

Currently the json module is using the sre_* modules to construct it's 
regular expressions instead of just using the re module directly.  

Because of this it's taking a dependency on what would appear to be 
CPython specific implementation details (sre_* appear to be 
undocumented) and a deprecated module.  The end result is that json 
decoding doesn't work on IronPython and may not work on other Python 
implementations.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 94010
nosy: DinoV
severity: normal
status: open
title: json uses sre_* modules which may not work on alternate implemenations
type: behavior

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