It would also be nice to have a common interface to all modules that do serialization. For example pickle, cPickle, marshall has dumps, so json should also have dumps.
Massimo On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Mark Ramm wrote: >> Well, so fix this. How hard can it be? > > A google search for "jsonlib rfc" turns up this article: > > http://jmillikin.blogspot.com/2008/02/python-json-catastrophe.html > > And it looks like the two issues with simplejson are: > > 1) decoding JSON with unicode code-points outside the Basic > Multilingual Plane > 2) Decoding the json 1.1 as a python float rather than a decimal > > I think the author could very well be incorrect in believing that the > spec requires using a decimal, so that just leaves the Unicode issue, > which isn't very clearly defined in the article, but ought to be > reasonably easy to fix. > > The spec isn't as clear as it could be about a lot of issues, but I've > had no problems with simplejson and interoperability with the various > javascript libraries. I've also used simplejson with one or two of > the ruby json libraries, flex's json lib, and a couple of libraries > for other languages, with no particular issues. That's not to say > there are no bugs, but I don't think there are too many issues buried > in there. > > --Mark > _______________________________________________ > Web-SIG mailing list > Web-SIG@python.org > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/ > mdipierro%40cti.depaul.edu _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
