On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Robert Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Robert Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Deron Meranda wrote: > > > > And even then, we're not just talking about a JSON parser. > > > > We're all doing more than that; we're mapping Python to JSON. > > > > And there is no definitive spec for that. Just look at my > > > > numbers tests; there are a lot of differences in how numeric > > > > mappings are done, but yet many of them can be arguably > > > > "correct" while still doing things differently. > > > > > > ...which IMO argues that any json implementation that goes > > > in the stdlib needs to at least allow access to the raw bytes > > > in both directions. For example, if you really want JSON > > > numerals to become Python decimals, you shouldn't be forced > > > to lose information just because the json decoder was only > > > designed to hand you a float. Arbitrary converter plugins would > > > be icing on the cake. A built in decimal converter would be > > > heaven. :) > > > > That can be easily done, but at the expense of speed or clarity in the > > implementation... I'd be willing to add some hooks to simplejson that > > allow people to pass in their own functions that turn JSON terms (as > > strings) into Python objects. > > That'd be great! I expect a speed penalty of course, and IMO most of that > should be pushed onto anyone passing in functions, rather than making > everyone pay.
Ok, so I made these changes (parse_float/parse_int/parse_constant) and a few others for simplejson 1.8.1 and moved it to google code. http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/ Other changes: * No longer escapes / by default, if you're embedding in HTML then you'll have to escape that yourself, I got really tired of looking at URLs with all of the /s escaped. * Optional scanstring C speedup for decoding * correct unicode surrogate pair decoding * can be used from the command-line now to validate and pretty-print JSON ("curl http://json/ | python -msimplejson") * bug fix for ensure_ascii=False decoding If anyone else has any complaints, bug reports, or feature requests they'd like to address they should speak up soon either here or on the issue tracker. I think it's more or less ready to go into the stdlib at this point. -bob _______________________________________________ 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
