nested_encode

Converts unicode objects, in a nested structure (eg. json.loads), into utf-8 encoded bytes. For example:

# Before
{u'a': [{'b': [(1, 2, [u'\xd6sterreich'])]}]}

# After
{'a': [{'b': [(1, 2, ['\xc3\x96sterreich'])]}]}

Note: dictionaries are copied, lists and tuples are changed inplace.

Performance overhead: around 10%.

Usage

import simplejson
from nested_encode import encode_nested


def loads(data):
    return encode_nested(simplejson.loads(data))

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/axiros/nested_encode.git