On Apr 23, 12:16 pm, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > The Mozilla knowledge base claims that sessionstore.js is JSON: > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sessionstore.js
The claim is incorrect. > So does this tutorial: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_addons_developer_guide/ > Let's_build_a_Firefox_extension The claim is incorrect. > but Some Random Guy On The Internet claims it isn't: Uche Ogbuji is scarcely "Some Random Guy On The Internet". Moreover, his claim is correct. > http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/01/recovering-text-areas-from-fir.html > I'm leaning towards this being a bug in the json module. Unless somebody > can point me at a credible source that sessionstore.js isn't JSON, http://www.json.org/ ... check the syntax. No mention of parentheses as being special. No mention of unquoted property names. > I will > report this as a bug. I suggest that you restrict your report to the kludgy double-exception that you observed with Python 3.X. Python 2.6.2 produces an unexceptional exception :-) HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list