The issue is that in my laptop i have the python 2.7.5 with some version of Simplejson and on my Debian 6 Server I have Python 2.6.6 with some simplejson version .. but whats happening on the debian server is that simplejson is adding extra precision to the coordinates value --
>>> import simplejson as json
>>> streamer_data = json.loads('{"text": "test","geo": {"type": "Point","coordinates": [52.68908263, -8.50845340]},"coordinates": {"type": "Point","coordinates": [-8.50845340, 52.68908263]}}');
>>> print streamer_data
{u'text': test', u'geo': {u'type': u'Point', u'coordinates': [52.689082630000001, -8.5084534000000005]}, u'id': 420024061457346560L, u'coordinates': {u'type': u'Point', u'coordinates': [-8.5084534000000005, 52.689082630000001]}}
On my laptop this gives the correct result with proper precision to coordinates values --
>>> print streamer_data
{'text': 'test', 'geo': {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [52.68908263, -8.5084534]}, 'coordinates': {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [-8.5084534, 52.68908263]}}
Is this the Simplejson versioning problem or something else. Also note that i tried to figure out the version of simplejson on debian server but no success.
This difference between Python 2.6 and 2.7 has nothing to do with simplejson. In 2.7 there are changes to the algorithms used to produce the string representation and rounding of floating point numbers.
$ python2.6 -c "print([52.68908263, -8.50845340])"
[52.689082630000001, -8.5084534000000005]
$ python2.7 -c "print([52.68908263, -8.50845340])"
[52.68908263, -8.5084534]