[issue10038] json.loads() on str should return unicode, not str

[Nik Tautenhahn]

Nik Tautenhahn <nik at livinglogic.de> added the comment:

There is even more inconsistency here.

As already mentioned, we have this:


>>> import json
>>> json.loads(json.dumps("abc"))

'abc'

If, however, I am evil and hide _json.so (which is the C-part of the json module for speedup), the JSON code falls back to its python implementation and voila:

>>> import json
>>> json.loads(json.dumps("abc"))

u'abc'

Not so neat, if your fallback is not a fallback but shows such different behaviour.

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