New submission from Tomasz Buchert <thin...@gmail.com>:
Hi there!
According to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt . The JSON object is either a
list or a dictionary with other elements in it. However Python's implementation
took liberty to parse also basic types, like integers, strings, floats, etc.
For example:
>>> import json
>>> json.loads('42')
42
>>> json.dumps(3.141592)
'3.141592'
It wouldn't be a problem if other implementations would adhere to this
behavior, but this is not true. Take Ruby for example:
irb(main):007:0> require 'rubygems';
irb(main):008:0* require 'json';
irb(main):009:0* JSON.parse '42'
JSON::ParserError: 743: unexpected token at '42'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.6.1/lib/json/common.rb:148:in `parse'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.6.1/lib/json/common.rb:148:in `parse'
from (irb):9
from :0
irb(main):010:0> JSON.generate(3.141592)
JSON::GeneratorError: only generation of JSON objects or arrays allowed
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.6.1/lib/json/common.rb:216:in
`generate'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.6.1/lib/json/common.rb:216:in
`generate'
from (irb):10
from :0
Also http://jsonlint.com/ considers it an error.
I know this is not very important, but I've ran into this today when trying to
parse JSON in Ruby which was produced in Python.
I've made a patch for that, but I still need to fix tests and there are many of
them. I first would like to know if it is going to be fixed, then I will
complete the patch.
Thanks for Python, anyway!
Tomek
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 145847
nosy: thinred
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: json library is decoding/encoding when it should not
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
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