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Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle

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On 9/6/2014 12:32 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2014-09-06 01:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:04 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
>> wrote:
>>> JSON has 'true' and 'false'.
>>>
>>> Python has 'True' and 'False'.
>>>
>>> Therefore, if you want it to be able to drop it into Python's REPL,
>>> it won't be compatible with JSON anyway! (Well, not unless you
>>> define 'true' and 'false' first.)
>>
>> This is a new spec, so I guess the question is whether it's
>> primarily "JSON with some more features" or "subset of Python syntax
>> in the same way that JSON is a subset of JS". If it's the former,
>> then yes, it'd use "true" and "false", and you'd have to define them;
>> but if the latter, the spec would simply use "True" and "False". But
>> being able to guarantee that JSON decodes correctly with this parser
>> (ie make it a guaranteed superset of JSON) would be of value.
>>
> I've found that there's another issue with JSON: string escapes include
> \u, but not \U:
>
>  >>> json.dumps('\U0010FFFF')
> '"\\udbff\\udfff"'
>
> Yes, it uses surrogate escapes!

Because Javascript does.  It does roundtrip properly (3.4.1)
 >>> json.loads('"\\udbff\\udfff"')
'\U0010ffff'

> Also:
>
>  >>> json.dumps('\uDBFF\uDFFF')
> '"\\udbff\\udfff"'
>
> so it won't round-trip.
>
> On the other hand, you probably won't be using pairs of surrogate
> escapes in Python 3.3.

The surrogate codepoints are not unicode characters and as I remember 
from reading the standard, would not be allowed in a strict utf-32 
implementation.  3.3+ uses them, when requested, to represent 
undecodable bytes in a non-standard fashion.
and for other occasional practical reasons that most of us can ignore.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Storing instances using jsonpickle Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 13:32 -0700
  Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-03 16:52 -0400
    Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 15:30 -0700
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-04 00:39 +0100
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-09-04 01:11 +0000
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-03 22:18 -0400
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Sam Raker <sam.raker@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 21:52 -0700
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2014-09-15 12:30 -0700
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-04 15:17 +1000
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-09-05 04:38 +0000
          Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 15:08 +1000
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-04 12:07 +0100
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-05 18:04 +0100
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-05 20:16 +0300
          Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-05 13:30 -0400
            Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-05 21:04 +0300
              Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-05 16:50 -0400
                Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-05 23:57 +0300
          Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2014-09-06 00:18 +0200
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 10:20 +1000
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-06 17:32 +0100
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-06 12:56 -0400
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-06 14:27 -0400

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