[issue6566] json.dumps converts None to "null" (not null)

Sridhar Ratnakumar report at bugs.python.org
Fri Jul 24 23:17:36 CEST 2009


Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

> JSON dict keys are strings *only*.

I might be helpful to point this out (along with other caveats) in the 
standard library documentation for JSON.

An explicit mention of ``loads(dumps(x)) != x for certain structures`` 
would be nice.

I, sir, was genuinely surprised to discover this.

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