[issue4136] merge json library with latest simplejson 2.0.x

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> simplejson maintains Python 2.4+ compatibility, but json maintains 2.6+.
> I could produce another patch that manually removes these few remaining
> nits if it's necessary.

I don't quite understand this: isn't json/decoder.py and
simplejson/decoder.py essentially the same? why fork the one and not
the other?

However, as long as the compatibility requirements are documented
somewhere (e.g. PEP 291), it's fine with me.

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