I don't see how this can fail. json.loads is available in Python 2.7.16 and Python 3.7.3 on my machines:

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I don't see how this can fail. json.loads is available in Python 2.7.16 and Python 3.7.3 on my machines:

Python 2.7.16 (default, Oct 10 2019, 22:02:15)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from json import loads
>>> 

Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr  3 2019, 05:39:12) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>d> from json import loads
>>> 

Originally posted by @kofrezo in #20 (comment)