[Python-Dev] Status of json (simplejson) in cpython

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 16:19, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> What you're proposing doesn't address the question of who is going to
> do the ongoing maintenance. Bob apparently isn't interested in
> maintaining stdlib code, and python-dev members aren't interested in
> maintaining simplejson (assuming it would be at all possible). Since
> both groups of people want to work on separate codebases, I don't see
> how sharing a single codebase would be possible.

>From reading this thread, it seems to me like the proposal is that Bob
maintains a simplejson for both 2.x and 3.x and that the current
stdlib json is replaced by a (trivially changed) version of
simplejson.

Cheers,

Dirkjan