On 5/29/07, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Dear Ian
> >
> > I just tried this on windows with waitforit rev 6599 (as well as ver 0.2
> > from pypi) and I'm getting a unterminated string error at line 52:
> > (sorry I've not tested this on my linux box I will later and let you
> > know if I get the same error)
> >
> > dummy={"
>
> Is this on IE or Firefox?
>
> I'm a little fuzzy on how to handle JSON. I thought simply
> eval(req.responseText) would work, but it doesn't. I tried
> eval("dummy="+req.responseText) and that works, sometimes. Not always,
> apparently.
>
> I just committed what MochiKit does for evaluation. I don't actually
> understand how it would change anything, but maybe. Another possibility
> is that markup is actually being returned. In the trunk I also improved
> the error messages a little bit; you should now see the bad JSON code in
> an error message in the page.
Using eval on JSON is generally considered bad practice. There's some
"evaluateJSON" function or something like that. That way you can make
sure you're getting data instead of evaluating code.
Happy Hacking!
-jj
--
http://jjinux.blogspot.com/
_______________________________________________
Paste-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://webwareforpython.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/paste-users
