Simplejson
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simplejson is a JSON encoder/decoder library for Python and the original project that became the standard json module in Python 2.6 and 3.0. It keeps the same dumps()/loads() API as the standard module while being updated more often as an external package, and it speeds things up with a C extension and offers direct Decimal support, namedtuple handling, and somewhat more options. This page also collects a list of other Python JSON libraries.