simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python

 simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON
 <http://json.org> encoder and decoder.
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 The encoder may be subclassed to provide serialization in any kind of
 situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized
 (somewhat like pickle).
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 The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding
 (UTF-8 by default).
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 simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the json
 library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, but maintains backwards
 compatibility with Python 2.5.