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Python simplejson not converting true

Why doesn't this work? I'm reading for simplejson JsonDecoder, true should be parsable and translated to True.

% python
>>> import simplejson as json
>>> print json.loads({"bool":true})
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'true' is not defined
>>>
Solution

  • The input to loads should be a string:

    >>> json.loads('{"bool":true}')
{u'bool': True}