New submission from Nick Coghlan: In two recent Python 3 porting projects, a key incompatibility I encountered was that "json.loads(data)" on UTF-8 encoded bytes required an explicit decoding step under Python 3, rather than implicitly decoding the data as UTF-8.
Unlike many other wire formats, assuming UTF-8 for binary JSON data is a pretty safe assumption, and there's no type ambiguity here since the output type is still a properly decoded JSON object. (This RFE has been split out from the larger RFE at #19837, which also covers implicit *encoding* to UTF-8, which is a more questionable idea) ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 272725 nosy: ezio.melotti, ncoghlan, rhettinger priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Accept UTF-8 encoded bytes as input to json.loads() type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27765> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
