hi,
Just include simplejson with your library, but rename it so if someone has
their own version installed it will use that :)
try:
import json
except ImportError:
import mysimplejson as json
cheers,
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Chris McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 04:44:30PM -0700, Patrick Mullen wrote:
> > Python2.6 comes with json. Other than that, it is a small thing to
> include.
> >
> > The library seems to be built around json, so removing it as a
> > dependency doesn't make much sense.
>
> Actually I don't think it would be a huge job to change the serialisation
> method to something else, optionally. I'll have a look it and see. My only
> concern is about security - I chose JSON serialisation over something like
> pickling because there's no way a client can inject malicious code using
> JSON.
> I wonder if there's some other safe, built-in, pythonic way of serialising
> data
> structures that I don't know about?
>
> > The whiteboard example is very impressive! It looks a lot easier to
> > start working with than twisted.
>
> Thanks! My intention was for it to be extremely simple, and lightweight,
> which
> Twisted isn't (/me dons his flame retardant suit). Part of being
> lightweight
> and simple is probably removing dependencies on unneccesary third party
> libraries, so I think I will have a crack at removing the simplejson
> requirement, and also making the built-in JSON of 2.6 useable.
>
> Best,
>
> Chris.
>
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