Remove fromhex all together

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/simplejson/compat.py b/simplejson/compat.py
index 6dd4132..6f945cc 100644
--- a/simplejson/compat.py
+++ b/simplejson/compat.py
@@ -15,13 +15,6 @@ if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
     integer_types = (int, long)
     unichr = unichr
     reload_module = reload
-    try:
-        from binascii import unhexlify as fromhex
-    except ImportError:
-        # Python 2.5
-        def fromhex(s):
-            return s.decode('hex')
-
 else:
     PY3 = True
     if sys.version_info[:2] >= (3, 4):
@@ -44,7 +37,4 @@ else:
     def unichr(s):
         return u(chr(s))
 
-    def fromhex(s):
-        return bytes.fromhex(s)
-
 long_type = integer_types[-1]
diff --git a/simplejson/decoder.py b/simplejson/decoder.py
index 545e658..29de124 100644
--- a/simplejson/decoder.py
+++ b/simplejson/decoder.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 import re
 import sys
 import struct
-from .compat import fromhex, b, u, text_type, binary_type, PY3, unichr
+from .compat import b, u, text_type, binary_type, PY3, unichr
 from .scanner import make_scanner, JSONDecodeError
 
 def _import_c_scanstring():
@@ -22,12 +22,16 @@ __all__ = ['JSONDecoder']
 FLAGS = re.VERBOSE | re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL
 
 def _floatconstants():
-    _BYTES = fromhex('7FF80000000000007FF0000000000000')
-    # The struct module in Python 2.4 would get frexp() out of range here
-    # when an endian is specified in the format string. Fixed in Python 2.5+
-    if sys.byteorder != 'big':
-        _BYTES = _BYTES[:8][::-1] + _BYTES[8:][::-1]
-    nan, inf = struct.unpack('dd', _BYTES)
+    if sys.version_info < (2, 6):
+        _BYTES = '7FF80000000000007FF0000000000000'.decode('hex')
+        # The struct module in Python 2.4 would get frexp() out of range here
+        # when an endian is specified in the format string. Fixed in Python 2.5+
+        if sys.byteorder != 'big':
+            _BYTES = _BYTES[:8][::-1] + _BYTES[8:][::-1]
+        nan, inf = struct.unpack('dd', _BYTES)
+    else:
+        nan = float('nan')
+        inf = float('inf')
     return nan, inf, -inf
 
 NaN, PosInf, NegInf = _floatconstants()