Anyjson loads whichever is the fastest JSON module installed and provides a uniform API regardless of which JSON implementation is used.
Originally part of carrot (http://github.com/ask/carrot/)
To serialize a python object to a JSON string, call the serialize function:
>>> import anyjson >>> anyjson.serialize(["test", 1, {"foo": 3.141592}, "bar"]) '["test", 1, {"foo": 3.141592}, "bar"]'
Conversion the other way is done with the deserialize call.
>>> anyjson.deserialize("""["test", 1, {"foo": 3.141592}, "bar"]""") ['test', 1, {'foo': 3.1415920000000002}, 'bar']
Regardless of the JSON implementation used, the exceptions will be the same. This means that trying to serialize something not compatible with JSON raises a TypeError:
>>> anyjson.serialize([object()]) Traceback (most recent call last): <snipped traceback> TypeError: object is not JSON encodable
And deserializing a JSON string with invalid JSON raises a ValueError:
>>> anyjson.deserialize("""['missing square brace!""") Traceback (most recent call last): <snipped traceback> ValueError: cannot parse JSON description
The module is maintaned by Rune F. Halvorsen <runefh@gmail.com>. The project resides at http://bitbucket.org/runeh/anyjson . Bugs and feature requests can be submitted there. Patches are also very welcome.
See CHANGELOG file
see the LICENSE file