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+simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible
+JSON <http://json.org> encoder and decoder for Python 2.5+.  It is
+pure Python code with no dependencies, but includes an optional C
+extension for a serious speed boost.
+
+simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the
+json library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, but maintains
+backwards compatibility with Python 2.5.
+
+The encoder may be subclassed to provide serialization in any kind of
+situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized
+(somewhat like pickle).
+
+The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding
+(UTF-8 by default).