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| .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/simplejson/simplejson.svg?branch=master |
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| simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible |
| JSON <http://json.org> encoder and decoder for Python 2.5+ |
| and Python 3.3+. It is pure Python code with no dependencies, |
| but includes an optional C extension for a serious speed boost. |
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| The latest documentation for simplejson can be read online here: |
| https://simplejson.readthedocs.io/ |
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| simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the |
| json library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, but maintains |
| backwards compatibility with Python 2.5. |
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| The encoder can be specialized to provide serialization in any kind of |
| situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized |
| (somewhat like pickle). This is best done with the ``default`` kwarg |
| to dumps. |
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| The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding |
| (UTF-8 by default). It can also be specialized to post-process JSON |
| objects with the ``object_hook`` or ``object_pairs_hook`` kwargs. This |
| is particularly useful for implementing protocols such as JSON-RPC |
| that have a richer type system than JSON itself. |
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| For those of you that have legacy systems to maintain, there is a |
| very old fork of simplejson in the `python2.2`_ branch that supports |
| Python 2.2. This is based off of a very old version of simplejson, |
| is not maintained, and should only be used as a last resort. |
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| .. _python2.2: https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/tree/python2.2 |
| https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/tree/python2.2 |
