> I'm personally leaning slightly towards strings, putting the burden on > bytes-users of json to explicitly use the appropriate encoding, even in > cases where it *must* be utf8. On the other hand, I'm too lazy to dig > back through this large thread, but I seem to recall a suggestion that > using bytes would be significantly faster.
Not sure whether it would be *significantly* faster, but yes, Bob wrote an accelerator for parsing out of a byte string to make it really fast; IIRC, he claims that it is faster than pickling. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
