Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Le jeudi 26 avril 2012 à 15:48 +0000, Serhiy Storchaka a écrit : > > I mean a string that starts with '\u0000'. b'"\x00...'.
According to the RFC, that should be escaped: All Unicode characters may be placed within the quotation marks except for the characters that must be escaped: quotation mark, reverse solidus, and the control characters (U+0000 through U+001F). And indeed: >>> json.loads('"\u0000"') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/antoine/opt/lib/python3.2/json/__init__.py", line 307, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/home/antoine/opt/lib/python3.2/json/decoder.py", line 351, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/home/antoine/opt/lib/python3.2/json/decoder.py", line 367, in raw_decode obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx) ValueError: Invalid control character at: line 1 column 1 (char 1) >>> json.loads('"\\u0000"') '\x00' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10976> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com