Which JSON module can I use in Python 2.5?

Question

I would like to use Python\'s JSON 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 avail

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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")

Answer 3

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...

Answer 4

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 

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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