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3324	FloatFields are converted to decimal and simplejson cannot serialize	alex@…	Jacob	"when serializing objects from a MySQL DB containing FloatFields to JSON, the float values are converted to Decimal objects, which are not understood by simplejson:

{{{

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""blah/test.py"", line 18, in ?
    test()
  File ""blah/test.py"", line 16, in test
    print serialize(""json"", Blah.objects.all())
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/core/serializers/__init__.py"", line 55, in serialize
    s.serialize(queryset, **options)
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/core/serializers/base.py"", line 49, in serialize
    self.end_serialization()
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/core/serializers/json.py"", line 19, in end_serialization
    simplejson.dump(self.objects, self.stream, cls=DateTimeAwareJSONEncoder, **self.options)
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/__init__.py"", line 119, in dump
    for chunk in iterable:
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 220, in _iterencode
    for chunk in self._iterencode_list(o, markers):
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 143, in _iterencode_list
    for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 223, in _iterencode
    for chunk in self._iterencode_dict(o, markers):
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 196, in _iterencode_dict
    for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 223, in _iterencode
    for chunk in self._iterencode_dict(o, markers):
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 196, in _iterencode_dict
    for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 231, in _iterencode
    for chunk in self._iterencode_default(o, markers):
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 237, in _iterencode_default
    newobj = self.default(o)
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/core/serializers/json.py"", line 51, in default
    return super(DateTimeAwareJSONEncoder, self).default(o)
  File ""/home/alex/source/svn/django/django/utils/simplejson/encoder.py"", line 258, in default
    raise TypeError(""%r is not JSON serializable"" % (o,))
TypeError: Decimal(""9999999.99999999999999999999"") is not JSON serializable

}}}

"		closed	Core (Serialization)	dev		fixed	json decimal	mssnlayam@… adurdin@… eric@… django@…	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0