On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
>> Is there a reason JSON is used other than YAML not being in the stdlib?
>
> It's simpler, it's Python syntax, it's faster to parse.

I would warn strongly against the "JSON is Python syntax" meme.


Another warning - this javascript tidbit broke my heart more times than I care to admit:

>var k = 'foo'
>var obj = {k: 'wonderful'}
>obj[k]
undefined
>obj['k']
"wonderful"


Yuval