Python 2.5: JSON module

Question

I would like to use Python's JSON module. It was only introduced in Python 2.6 and I'm stuck with 2.5 for now. Is the particular JSON module provided with Python 2.6 available as a separate module that can be used with 2.5?

Answer 1

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/2.0.9

Answer 2

I prefer cjson since it's much faster: http://www.vazor.com/cjson.html

Answer 3

To Wells and others:

Way late here, but how can you write a script to import either json or simplejson depending on the installed python version?

Here's how:

try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json