Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: My point is that Python and JSON are two different languages which have different syntaxes. JSON is not Python and Python is not JSON. We can't enumerate all differences unless to cite Python [1] and JSON [2] specifications. For differences from JSON specifications see [3]. [1] http://docs.python.org/3/reference/index.html [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627.html [3] http://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#standard-compliance ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19871> _______________________________________