[Python-Dev] Status of json (simplejson) in cpython

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> It's quite likely that I've failed to turn off the stdlib json speedups (though
> I attempted to turn them off for both encoding and decoding), which would
> explain the big disparity in the non-speedup case. Perhaps someone with more
> familiarity with stdlib json speedup internals could take a look to see what
> I've missed? I perhaps can't see the forest for the trees.

Consider trying:

import sys
sys.modules["_json"] = 0 # Block the C extension
import json

in a fresh interpreter.

(This is the same dance test.support.import_fresh_module() uses
internally to get unaccelerated modules for testing purposes)

Cheers,
Nick.

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