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Class JSONDecoder

object --+
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        JSONDecoder

Simple JSON <http://json.org> decoder

Performs the following translations in decoding by default:

+---------------+-------------------+ | JSON | Python | +===============+===================+ | object | dict | +---------------+-------------------+ | array | list | +---------------+-------------------+ | string | unicode | +---------------+-------------------+ | number (int) | int, long | +---------------+-------------------+ | number (real) | float | +---------------+-------------------+ | true | True | +---------------+-------------------+ | false | False | +---------------+-------------------+ | null | None | +---------------+-------------------+

It also understands ``NaN``, ``Infinity``, and ``-Infinity`` as their corresponding ``float`` values, which is outside the JSON spec.

Instance Methods
 
__init__(self, encoding=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, strict=True, object_pairs_hook=None)
``encoding`` determines the encoding used to interpret any ``str`` objects decoded by this instance (utf-8 by default).
 
decode(self, s, _w=<built-in method match of _sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x2478530>)
Return the Python representation of ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` instance containing a JSON document)
 
raw_decode(self, s, idx=0)
Decode a JSON document from ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` beginning with a JSON document) and return a 2-tuple of the Python representation and the index in ``s`` where the document ended.

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

Properties

Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

__init__(self, encoding=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, strict=True, object_pairs_hook=None)
(Constructor)

 

``encoding`` determines the encoding used to interpret any ``str`` objects decoded by this instance (utf-8 by default). It has no effect when decoding ``unicode`` objects.

Note that currently only encodings that are a superset of ASCII work, strings of other encodings should be passed in as ``unicode``.

``object_hook``, if specified, will be called with the result of every JSON object decoded and its return value will be used in place of the given ``dict``. This can be used to provide custom deserializations (e.g. to support JSON-RPC class hinting).

``object_pairs_hook``, if specified will be called with the result of every JSON object decoded with an ordered list of pairs. The return value of ``object_pairs_hook`` will be used instead of the ``dict``. This feature can be used to implement custom decoders that rely on the order that the key and value pairs are decoded (for example, collections.OrderedDict will remember the order of insertion). If ``object_hook`` is also defined, the ``object_pairs_hook`` takes priority.

``parse_float``, if specified, will be called with the string of every JSON float to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to float(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser for JSON floats (e.g. decimal.Decimal).

``parse_int``, if specified, will be called with the string of every JSON int to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to int(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser for JSON integers (e.g. float).

``parse_constant``, if specified, will be called with one of the following strings: -Infinity, Infinity, NaN. This can be used to raise an exception if invalid JSON numbers are encountered.

If ``strict`` is false (true is the default), then control characters will be allowed inside strings. Control characters in this context are those with character codes in the 0-31 range, including ``'\t'`` (tab), ``'\n'``, ``'\r'`` and ``'\0'``.

Overrides: object.__init__

raw_decode(self, s, idx=0)

 

Decode a JSON document from ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` beginning with a JSON document) and return a 2-tuple of the Python representation and the index in ``s`` where the document ended.

This can be used to decode a JSON document from a string that may have extraneous data at the end.