--- a/Lib/json/__init__.py	Sat May 02 12:15:39 2009 +0000
+++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py	Sat May 02 12:36:44 2009 +0000
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-r"""A simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder and decoder
-
-JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) <http://json.org> is a subset of
+r"""JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) <http://json.org> is a subset of
 JavaScript syntax (ECMA-262 3rd edition) used as a lightweight data
 interchange format.
 
-json exposes an API familiar to uses of the standard library
-marshal and pickle modules.
+:mod:`json` exposes an API familiar to users of the standard library
+:mod:`marshal` and :mod:`pickle` modules. It is the externally maintained
+version of the :mod:`json` library contained in Python 2.6, but maintains
+compatibility with Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 and (currently) has
+significant performance advantages, even without using the optional C
+extension for speedups.
 
 Encoding basic Python object hierarchies::
 
@@ -32,23 +34,28 @@
     >>> json.dumps([1,2,3,{'4': 5, '6': 7}], separators=(',',':'))
     '[1,2,3,{"4":5,"6":7}]'
 
-Pretty printing (using repr() because of extraneous whitespace in the output)::
+Pretty printing::
 
     >>> import json
-    >>> print(repr(json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4)))
-    '{\n    "4": 5, \n    "6": 7\n}'
+    >>> s = json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
+    >>> print('\n'.join([l.rstrip() for l in  s.splitlines()]))
+    {
+        "4": 5,
+        "6": 7
+    }
 
 Decoding JSON::
 
     >>> import json
-    >>> json.loads('["foo", {"bar":["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]')
-    ['foo', {'bar': ['baz', None, 1.0, 2]}]
-    >>> json.loads('"\\"foo\\bar"')
-    '"foo\x08ar'
+    >>> obj = ['foo', {'bar': ['baz', None, 1.0, 2]}]
+    >>> json.loads('["foo", {"bar":["baz", null, 1.0, 2]}]') == obj
+    True
+    >>> json.loads('"\\"foo\\bar"') == '"foo\x08ar'
+    True
     >>> from io import StringIO
     >>> io = StringIO('["streaming API"]')
-    >>> json.load(io)
-    ['streaming API']
+    >>> json.load(io)[0] == 'streaming API'
+    True
 
 Specializing JSON object decoding::
 
@@ -61,43 +68,36 @@
     >>> json.loads('{"__complex__": true, "real": 1, "imag": 2}',
     ...     object_hook=as_complex)
     (1+2j)
-    >>> import decimal
-    >>> json.loads('1.1', parse_float=decimal.Decimal)
-    Decimal('1.1')
+    >>> from decimal import Decimal
+    >>> json.loads('1.1', parse_float=Decimal) == Decimal('1.1')
+    True
 
-Extending JSONEncoder::
+Specializing JSON object encoding::
 
     >>> import json
-    >>> class ComplexEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
-    ...     def default(self, obj):
-    ...         if isinstance(obj, complex):
-    ...             return [obj.real, obj.imag]
-    ...         return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
+    >>> def encode_complex(obj):
+    ...     if isinstance(obj, complex):
+    ...         return [obj.real, obj.imag]
+    ...     raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
     ...
-    >>> dumps(2 + 1j, cls=ComplexEncoder)
+    >>> json.dumps(2 + 1j, default=encode_complex)
     '[2.0, 1.0]'
-    >>> ComplexEncoder().encode(2 + 1j)
+    >>> json.JSONEncoder(default=encode_complex).encode(2 + 1j)
     '[2.0, 1.0]'
-    >>> list(ComplexEncoder().iterencode(2 + 1j))
-    ['[', '2.0', ', ', '1.0', ']']
+    >>> ''.join(json.JSONEncoder(default=encode_complex).iterencode(2 + 1j))
+    '[2.0, 1.0]'
 
 
-Using json.tool from the shell to validate and
-pretty-print::
+Using json.tool from the shell to validate and pretty-print::
 
-    $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -mjson.tool
+    $ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -m json.tool
     {
         "json": "obj"
     }
-    $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -mjson.tool
+    $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m json.tool
     Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
-
-Note that the JSON produced by this module's default settings
-is a subset of YAML, so it may be used as a serializer for that as well.
-
 """
-
-__version__ = '1.9'
+__version__ = '2.0.9'
 __all__ = [
     'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
     'JSONDecoder', 'JSONEncoder',
@@ -115,45 +115,43 @@
     allow_nan=True,
     indent=None,
     separators=None,
-    encoding='utf-8',
     default=None,
 )
 
 def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
         allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None,
-        encoding='utf-8', default=None, **kw):
+        default=None, **kw):
     """Serialize ``obj`` as a JSON formatted stream to ``fp`` (a
     ``.write()``-supporting file-like object).
 
-    If ``skipkeys`` is ``True`` then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
-    (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``long``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``)
-    will be skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
+    If ``skipkeys`` is true then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
+    (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be
+    skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
 
-    If ``ensure_ascii`` is ``False``, then the some chunks written to ``fp``
+    If ``ensure_ascii`` is false, then the some chunks written to ``fp``
     may be ``unicode`` instances, subject to normal Python ``str`` to
     ``unicode`` coercion rules. Unless ``fp.write()`` explicitly
     understands ``unicode`` (as in ``codecs.getwriter()``) this is likely
     to cause an error.
 
-    If ``check_circular`` is ``False``, then the circular reference check
+    If ``check_circular`` is false, then the circular reference check
     for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
     result in an ``OverflowError`` (or worse).
 
-    If ``allow_nan`` is ``False``, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
+    If ``allow_nan`` is false, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
     serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``)
     in strict compliance of the JSON specification, instead of using the
     JavaScript equivalents (``NaN``, ``Infinity``, ``-Infinity``).
 
-    If ``indent`` is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and object
-    members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level
-    of 0 will only insert newlines. ``None`` is the most compact representation.
+    If ``indent`` is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and
+    object members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent
+    level of 0 will only insert newlines. ``None`` is the most compact
+    representation.
 
     If ``separators`` is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple
     then it will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators.
     ``(',', ':')`` is the most compact JSON representation.
 
-    ``encoding`` is the character encoding for str instances, default is UTF-8.
-
     ``default(obj)`` is a function that should return a serializable version
     of obj or raise TypeError. The default simply raises TypeError.
 
@@ -163,17 +161,17 @@
 
     """
     # cached encoder
-    if (skipkeys is False and ensure_ascii is True and
-        check_circular is True and allow_nan is True and
+    if (not skipkeys and ensure_ascii and
+        check_circular and allow_nan and
         cls is None and indent is None and separators is None and
-        encoding == 'utf-8' and default is None and not kw):
+        default is None and not kw):
         iterable = _default_encoder.iterencode(obj)
     else:
         if cls is None:
             cls = JSONEncoder
         iterable = cls(skipkeys=skipkeys, ensure_ascii=ensure_ascii,
             check_circular=check_circular, allow_nan=allow_nan, indent=indent,
-            separators=separators, encoding=encoding,
+            separators=separators,
             default=default, **kw).iterencode(obj)
     # could accelerate with writelines in some versions of Python, at
     # a debuggability cost
@@ -183,22 +181,22 @@
 
 def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
         allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None,
-        encoding='utf-8', default=None, **kw):
+        default=None, **kw):
     """Serialize ``obj`` to a JSON formatted ``str``.
 
-    If ``skipkeys`` is ``True`` then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
-    (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``long``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``)
-    will be skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
+    If ``skipkeys`` is false then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
+    (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be
+    skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
 
-    If ``ensure_ascii`` is ``False``, then the return value will be a
+    If ``ensure_ascii`` is false, then the return value will be a
     ``unicode`` instance subject to normal Python ``str`` to ``unicode``
     coercion rules instead of being escaped to an ASCII ``str``.
 
-    If ``check_circular`` is ``False``, then the circular reference check
+    If ``check_circular`` is false, then the circular reference check
     for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
     result in an ``OverflowError`` (or worse).
 
-    If ``allow_nan`` is ``False``, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
+    If ``allow_nan`` is false, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
     serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``) in
     strict compliance of the JSON specification, instead of using the
     JavaScript equivalents (``NaN``, ``Infinity``, ``-Infinity``).
@@ -212,8 +210,6 @@
     then it will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators.
     ``(',', ':')`` is the most compact JSON representation.
 
-    ``encoding`` is the character encoding for str instances, default is UTF-8.
-
     ``default(obj)`` is a function that should return a serializable version
     of obj or raise TypeError. The default simply raises TypeError.
 
@@ -223,35 +219,27 @@
 
     """
     # cached encoder
-    if (skipkeys is False and ensure_ascii is True and
-        check_circular is True and allow_nan is True and
+    if (not skipkeys and ensure_ascii and
+        check_circular and allow_nan and
         cls is None and indent is None and separators is None and
-        encoding == 'utf-8' and default is None and not kw):
+        default is None and not kw):
         return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
     if cls is None:
         cls = JSONEncoder
     return cls(
         skipkeys=skipkeys, ensure_ascii=ensure_ascii,
         check_circular=check_circular, allow_nan=allow_nan, indent=indent,
-        separators=separators, encoding=encoding, default=default,
+        separators=separators, default=default,
         **kw).encode(obj)
 
 
-_default_decoder = JSONDecoder(encoding=None, object_hook=None,
-                               object_pairs_hook=None)
+_default_decoder = JSONDecoder(object_hook=None, object_pairs_hook=None)
 
 
-def load(fp, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
+def load(fp, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
         parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw):
-    """Deserialize ``fp`` (a ``.read()``-supporting file-like object
-    containing a JSON document) to a Python object.
-
-    If the contents of ``fp`` is encoded with an ASCII based encoding other
-    than utf-8 (e.g. latin-1), then an appropriate ``encoding`` name must
-    be specified. Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2) are
-    not allowed, and should be wrapped with
-    ``codecs.getreader(fp)(encoding)``, or simply decoded to a ``unicode``
-    object and passed to ``loads()``
+    """Deserialize ``fp`` (a ``.read()``-supporting file-like object containing
+    a JSON document) to a Python object.
 
     ``object_hook`` is an optional function that will be called with the
     result of any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of
@@ -263,21 +251,16 @@
 
     """
     return loads(fp.read(),
-        encoding=encoding, cls=cls, object_hook=object_hook,
+        cls=cls, object_hook=object_hook,
         parse_float=parse_float, parse_int=parse_int,
         parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
 
 
 def loads(s, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
         parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw):
-    """Deserialize ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` instance containing a JSON
+    """Deserialize ``s`` (a ``str`` instance containing a JSON
     document) to a Python object.
 
-    If ``s`` is a ``str`` instance and is encoded with an ASCII based encoding
-    other than utf-8 (e.g. latin-1) then an appropriate ``encoding`` name
-    must be specified. Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2)
-    are not allowed and should be decoded to ``unicode`` first.
-
     ``object_hook`` is an optional function that will be called with the
     result of any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of
     ``object_hook`` will be used instead of the ``dict``. This feature
@@ -302,7 +285,7 @@
     kwarg.
 
     """
-    if (cls is None and encoding is None and object_hook is None and
+    if (cls is None and object_hook is None and
             parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
             parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
         return _default_decoder.decode(s)
@@ -318,4 +301,4 @@
         kw['parse_int'] = parse_int
     if parse_constant is not None:
         kw['parse_constant'] = parse_constant
-    return cls(encoding=encoding, **kw).decode(s)
+    return cls(**kw).decode(s)