[New-bugs-announce] [issue11982] json.loads() returns str instead of unicode for empty strings

[Manuel Cerón]

New submission from Manuel Cerón <ceronman at gmail.com>:

Python 2.7.1:

>>> import json
>>> json.loads('"hello"')
u'hello'
>>> .json.loads('""')
''

Related: issue 10038

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 135014
nosy: ceronman
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: json.loads() returns str instead of unicode for empty strings
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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