try: import ujson as json except: import json def my_print(o): if isinstance(o, dict): print('sorted dict', sorted(o.items())) elif isinstance(o, float): print('%.3f' % o) else: print(o) my_print(json.loads('null')) my_print(json.loads('false')) my_print(json.loads('true')) my_print(json.loads('1')) my_print(json.loads('1.2')) my_print(json.loads('1e2')) my_print(json.loads('-2')) my_print(json.loads('-2.3')) my_print(json.loads('-2e3')) my_print(json.loads('-2e-3')) my_print(json.loads('"abc\\u0064e"')) my_print(json.loads('[]')) my_print(json.loads('[null]')) my_print(json.loads('[null,false,true]')) my_print(json.loads(' [ null , false , true ] ')) my_print(json.loads('{}')) my_print(json.loads('{"a":true}')) my_print(json.loads('{"a":null, "b":false, "c":true}')) my_print(json.loads('{"a":[], "b":[1], "c":{"3":4}}')) # whitespace handling my_print(json.loads('{\n\t"a":[]\r\n, "b":[1], "c":{"3":4} \n\r\t\r\r\r\n}'))