PyJWT does not support all valid JSON types as the payload.

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PyJWT does not support all valid JSON types as the payload.

Expected Result

strs, ints, floats and lists (even better Sequences) should be able to encoded in the payload of the JWT as they are valid JSON types (string, number, object and array)

Actual Result

Raises TypeError: Expecting a mapping object, as JWT only supports JSON objects as payloads.

Reproduction Steps

import jwt
jwt.encode(123, "secret", algorithm="HS256")

System Information

{
  "cryptography": {
    "version": ""
  },
  "implementation": {
    "name": "CPython",
    "version": "3.10.4"
  },
  "platform": {
    "release": "5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2",
    "system": "Linux"
  },
  "pyjwt": {
    "version": "2.4.0"
  }
}

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