Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Still, JSON itself is not a wire protocol; HTTP is. http://www.json.org states that "JSON is a text format" and the grammar description talks "UNICODE characters", not bytes. The ECMA spec states that "JSON text is a sequence of Unicode code points".
RFC 4627 is a bit more affirmative, though, and says that "JSON text SHALL be encoded in Unicode [sic]. The default encoding is UTF-8". Related issues: - issue #10976: json.loads() raises TypeError on bytes object - issue #17909 (+ patch!): autodetecting JSON encoding > The other simple solution would be to add <name>b variants of the affected > APIs. "dumpb" is not very pretty and can easily be misread as "dumb" :-) "dump_bytes" looks better to me. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19837> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
