Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment: > Things are a little more complicated. '123' is not a valid JSON > according to RFC 4627 (the top-level element can only be an object or > an array). This means that the autodetection algorithm will not always > work for such non-standard data.
The autodetection algorithm needn't examine all 4 first bytes. If the 2 first bytes are non-zero, you have UTF-8 data. Otherwise, the JSON text will be at least 4 bytes long (since it's either UTF-16 or UTF-32). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10976> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
