Canonical JSON
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Features
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* Encodes objects and arrays as `RFC 7159`_ JSON.
* Sorts object keys so that you get the same result each time.
* Has no insignificant whitespace to make the output as small as possible.
* Escapes only the characters that must be escaped, U+0000 to U+0019 / U+0022 /
U+0056, to keep the output as small as possible.
* Uses the shortest escape sequence for each escaped character.
* Encodes the JSON as UTF-8.
* Can encode ``frozendict`` immutable dictionaries.
Supports Python versions 3.7 and newer.
.. _`RFC 7159`: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159
Installing
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.. code:: bash
pip install canonicaljson
Using
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To encode an object into the canonicaljson:
.. code:: python
import canonicaljson
assert canonicaljson.encode_canonical_json({}) == b'{}'
There's also an iterator version:
.. code:: python
import canonicaljson
assert b''.join(canonicaljson.iterencode_canonical_json({})) == b'{}'
The underlying JSON implementation can be chosen with the following:
.. code:: python
import json
import canonicaljson
canonicaljson.set_json_library(json)
.. note::
By default canonicaljson uses `simplejson`_ under the hood (except for PyPy,
which uses the standard library json module).
.. _simplejson: https://simplejson.readthedocs.io/