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Re: [Json] -0.0

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Fri, 27 September 2013 21:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] -0.0
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"Martin J. Dürst" scripsit:

> I have pretty little experience in this area, but that may indeed be
> the case. And it's probably fair, as Rob says in another mail, that
> the burden of proof is on those who claim there are implementations
> that don't respect the difference between -0 and 0. 

$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Dec 18 2012, 13:50:09)
[GCC 4.5.3] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import json
>>> json.loads("[-0]")
[0]
>>> json.loads("[-0.0]")
[-0.0]
>>>

There you go (and ultrajson behaves the same way).  Saying "most"
involves counting implementations, which is hard.

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John Cowan                                <cowan@ccil.org>
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