This issue is to track the update process of json to the latest upstream release (2.1.3).

As a start, here's the p-dev thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-April/110704.html

I am not sure anyone other that Bob Ippolito can contribute later versions of simplejson (or patches derived from those versions) to python.

ISTM that simplejson distribution is covered by MIT license [1] which is not one of the valid "initial licenses." [2]

I was trying to find what was the plan for maintaining json package in stdlib when it was initially included, but the only discussion I could find was a short thread [3] and issue #2750.  Neither seem to address the issue of future maintenance.
 

[1] https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
[2] http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/
[3] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-March/012583.html

That's not a problem, I'm more than happy to give permission for any patch. If it's easier I can consider dual-licensing in the simplejson source.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Bob Ippolito <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> That's not a problem, I'm more than happy to give permission for any patch.
> If it's easier I can consider dual-licensing in the simplejson source.

Can someone who can speak for PSF clarify the mechanics of how this
should be done?  The contributor form seems to suggest that

"""
Contributor shall identify each Contribution by placing the following
notice in its source code adjacent to Contributor's valid copyright
notice: "Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement."
"""

Would it be enough for Bob to add this text here:

 https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

?

What is the status of this, Sandro? Are we still out of sync? If so and it's a licensing issue I can get legal clarification for whatever we need.

To try and make this as painless as possible I have done both things. simplejson is now explicitly dual-licensed MIT or AFL v2.1 and there is also an explicit sentence in LICENSE.txt that states "This code is also licensed to the Python Software Foundation (PSF) under a Contributor Agreement."

simplejson v3.0.7 (tag v3.0.7 in the repo) is this version. If there's anything more I can do to help, please let me know.

Short of doing an actual merge I don't think so, Bob. Thanks for the changes!

Sandro, feel free to do any merge you were planning to do.

Which simplejson features or fixes exactly are missing from the json module?

Is there any reason why the two codebases are maintained separately instead of being kept in sync? (and what's the reason for simplejson to be still maintained?  faster release cycles? compatibility with older Python versions?)

See also issue16535. I doubt that json should support decimals in this manner, with special boolean parameter instead of general fabric function. Current simlejson has too many special parameters.

Hi all,

ping this issue for Python 3.5.

Development of simplejson and the standard json module has diverged. We may port selected fixes and features from simplejson, but I don't think a wholesale update is doable anymore.

Please open separate issues for each feature you would like to see added to the standard json module.

I close this issue because we are in 2018 and the issue was rejected by Antoine in 2014.