[Tutor] Json encode and decode on Puython 2.4

[Prasad, Ramit]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
> Hi all, I'm just getting into porting some PHP scripts to Python. One
> issue that I'm having is that the scripts need to run on a host with
> Python 2.4 that has neither the json nor simplejson packages
> available. I figure that I'll have to include the loads() and dumps()
> functions in my application. Where might I find the source for these
> two functions? What would be the best way to include them?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Dotan Cohen

Python 2.4 is quite old and simplejson supports 2.5+. I can see a 
yield in the encoder code, so it is unlikely to be easy to modify 
and get working with 2.4. According to a stack overflow question
you may want to look at older releases (example: 2.0.9/2.1) as being
more 2.4 compatible.
SimpleJson source: https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson
Change the version in the link to see if PyPi has a different version.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/2.1.0 

I have no idea if you can get the json library to work with 2.4.
I did not seen anything in my cursory glance that suggested it would
not. 
http://hg.python.org/cpython-fullhistory/file/8e0b617c6c22/Lib/json/

You may want to see if you can get a newer python installed on 
the machine. You probably want it alt-installed so you are not
replacing the system expected Python.


~Ramit


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