On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:11 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > I probably wouldn't make it fixed length. I'd have the length in > decimal followed by, say, "\n".
Or even "followed by any non-digit". Chances are your JSON data begins with a non-digit, so you'd just have to insert a space in the event that you're JSON-encoding a flat integer. (Which might not ever happen, if you know that your data will always be an object.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list