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#Copyright (c) 2011,12 Walter Bender

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500 Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA


from StringIO import StringIO
import json
json.dumps
from json import load as jload
from json import dump as jdump


def json_load(text):
    """ Load JSON data using what ever resources are available. """
    # strip out leading and trailing whitespace, nulls, and newlines
    io = StringIO(text)
    try:
        listdata = jload(io)
    except ValueError:
        # assume that text is ascii list
        listdata = text.split()
        for i, value in enumerate(listdata):
            listdata[i] = int(value)
    return listdata


def json_dump(data):
    """ Save data using available JSON tools. """
    _io = StringIO()
    jdump(data, _io)
    return _io.getvalue()