Which JSON module can I use in Python 2.5?

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Python Problem Overview

I would like to use Python's http://docs.python.org/library/json.html">JSON</a> module. It was only introduced in Python 2.6 and I'm stuck with 2.5 for now. Is the particular JSON module provided with Python 2.6 available as a separate module that can be used with 2.5?

Python Solutions

Solution 1 - Python

You can use simplejson.

As shown by the answer form pkoch you can use the following import statement to get a json library depending on the installed python version:

try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json

Solution 2 - Python

To Wells and others: > Way late here, but how can you write a script to import either json or simplejson depending on the installed python version?

Here's how: 

try:
import json
except ImportError:
import simplejson as json

Solution 3 - Python

I wrote the cjson 1.0.6 patch and my advice is don't use cjson -- there are other problems with cjson in how it handles unicode etc. I don't think the speed of cjson is worth dealing with the bugs -- encoding/decoding json is usually a very small bit of the time needed to process a typical web request...

json in python 2.6+ is basically simplejson brought into the standard library I believe...

Solution 4 - Python

I prefer cjson since it's much faster: http://www.vazor.com/cjson.html

Solution 5 - Python

I am programming in Python 2.5 as well and wanted a suitable library. Here is how I did it.

donwloaded the simplejson egg file called simplejson-2.0.6-py2.5-linux-i686.egg from http://pypi.python.org/simple/simplejson/

installed it using the command :

sudo python ./ez_setup.py ./simplejson-2.0.6-py2.5-linux-i686.egg

Then imported the json library into the script file by doing :

import sys
sys.path.append("/home/coolkid/Android/simplejson/simplejson-2.0.6-py2.5-linux-i686.egg")
try: import simplejson as json
except ImportError: print ("import error")

Solution 6 - Python

json is a built-in module, you don't need to install it with pip.

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