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[John Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not only do they have an incompatible API, but installing pymongo just
overwrites the pypi one. Since they are both called "import bson".

Pymongo is closer to an old cjson in that it uses encode/decode, though not
at module scope like the rest of them.

John
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On Nov 16, 2011 11:16 PM, "Robert Collins" <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:13 AM, John Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 16, 2011 8:35 PM, "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >> Which bson encoder / decoder did you use? The mongodb one or the one
> >> on pypi? [idly curious]
> >
> > Mongodb one. Pypi is pure python and 5-10x slower. Same for simplejson
> and
> > stdlib's json package.
>
> Interesting.  Currently oops-* is using the pypi one, and for laughs
> they have the same package name and an incompatible API. ><
>
> > Is JSON the one that has base60 floats? Or is that yaml?
> > John
>
> yaml I think. json only has: "A number can be represented as integer,
> real, or floating point. JSON does not support octal or hex because it
> is minimal. It does not have values for NaN or Infinity because it
> does not want to be tied to any particular internal representation.
> Numbers are not quoted. It would be insane to require quotes around
> numbers."
>
> -Rob
>