Python simplejson not converting true

Question

Why doesn't this work? I'm reading for simplejson JsonDecoder, true should be parsable and translated to True.

% python
>>> import simplejson as json
>>> print json.loads({"bool":true})
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'true' is not defined
>>>

Answer 1

The input to loads should be a string:

>>> json.loads('{"bool":true}')
{u'bool': True}

Answer 2

json.loads takes a string, which must be wrapped in quotes, like this:

o = json.loads(u'{"bool":true}')
print(o) # outputs  {u'bool': True}

Note that the u (which makes the string a character string in Python 2.x) is optional for this input and only becomes necessary if you're using non-ASCII characters such as ü, é, 编, or ℝ.