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11742	simplejson loads not always unicode	kwek	nobody	"In our project we use import simplejson from django as it provides a nice wrapper around python having json compiled in itself or the use of simplejson. But now we've upgraded to django 1.1 i noticed the following difference. 

See the output of python without simplejson installed. Notice that it always returns as unicode for loads().
{{{
>>> from django.utils import simplejson
>>> simplejson.loads('""test""', encoding='utf-8')
u'test'
>>> simplejson.loads('""test""')
u'test'
>>> 

Now see the output with simplejson installed. Notice that this returns as a normal string and not as unicode as some would expect. 
{{{
>>> from django.utils import simplejson
>>> simplejson.loads('""test""')
'test'
>>> simplejson.loads('""test""', encoding='utf-8')
'test'
}}}

And here the output of the python 2.6 json module (always unicode too)
{{{
>>> import json
>>> json.loads('""tuut""')
u'tuut'
}}}

So is this by design or did this inconsistency sneak in with the new release? In the meantime we will just import json from python directly (2.6) but i thought ill mention it anyway. 
"		closed	Uncategorized	1.1		invalid		mjbroek@…	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0