[patch] simplejson raises DeprecationWarning

[Tom Tobin <korpios@…>]

The simplejson module bundled with Django raises a DepreciationWarning when loaded, since it uses the sre module rather than re.

Since there is no reason not to use re (we're trying to be backwards compatible, but not that backwards compatible!), Django's simplejson should be patched to simply use re.

[Tom Tobin <korpios@…]

tweak bundled simplejson

[Tom Tobin <korpios@…]

I've attached a patch that, while not removing dependence upon sre_parse, sre_compile, or sre_constants (since simplejson is working some lower-level regex magic with those), it does shut up the DepreciationWarning by importing some constants from re rather than sre (the latter merely being a wrapper around the former).

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [3814]) Fixed #2677 -- Removed the need to import sre and hence avoid a
DeprecationWarning. Thanks, Tom Tobin.