I would rely on repr too much, Wikus is correct, and all escape sequences are safe?
http://json.org/ simplejson slow vs repr? on GAE it should be even slower... 2011/1/10 Wikus van de Merwe <dupakrop...@googlemail.com>: > Unfortunately there is a subtle difference between the output of repr/str > and JSON. Python by default uses single quotes while JSON needs the double > ones. If there are no strings in the dict though, str/repr would work all > fine. >