simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON (RFC 4627) encoder/decoder for Python 2.3+. It is pure Python code with no dependencies. simplejson 1.8.1 is a major update: Optional C extension for accelerating the decoding of JSON strings Command line interface for pretty-printing JSON (via python -msimplejson) Decoding of integers and floats is now extensible (e.g. [...]