Skip to main content

Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python

Project description

simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON <http://json.org> encoder and decoder for Python 2.5+ and Python 3.3+. It is pure Python code with no dependencies, but includes an optional C extension for a serious speed boost.

The latest documentation for simplejson can be read online here: http://simplejson.readthedocs.org/

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.

The encoder can be specialized to provide serialization in any kind of situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized (somewhat like pickle). This is best done with the default kwarg to dumps.

The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding (UTF-8 by default). It can also be specialized to post-process JSON objects with the object_hook or object_pairs_hook kwargs. This is particularly useful for implementing protocols such as JSON-RPC that have a richer type system than JSON itself.

For those of you that have legacy systems to maintain, there is a very old fork of simplejson in the python2.2 branch that supports Python 2.2. This is based off of a very old version of simplejson, is not maintained, and should only be used as a last resort.

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

simplejson-3.8.0.tar.gz (75.9 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

File details

Details for the file simplejson-3.8.0.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: simplejson-3.8.0.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 75.9 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No

File hashes

Hashes for simplejson-3.8.0.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 217e4797da3a9a4a9fbe6722e0db98070b8443a88212d7acdbd241a7668141d9
MD5 72f3b93a6f9808df81535f79e79565a2
BLAKE2b-256 36c9746cec37ec357c9882011d1d4ed06e6fe27bea48c4272ebbbc7512bcb7da

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page