Quoth Tomi Ollila on Aug 08 at  9:47 pm:
> On Wed, Aug 08 2012, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > Not another JSON parser/printer!
> 
> Why not, one from scratch, without looking any source there is already >;)
> 
> Well, you're right; the json.tool version python 2.6 provides is good --
> -- ordering and those \uNNNN:s doesn't really matter.
> Probably thinking (or planning!) anything else at this time is waste of time.
> 
> At least these 2 questions remain:
> 
> Is the test requirement of python 2.6 suitable/acceptable ?

Too late; it's already in master.  Besides, even *Debian stable* has
Python 2.6, which qualifies it as ubiquitous in my book.

> How do we pretty-print S-expression syntax ;) ?

Emacs of course!

echo '(1 2 (3 4) (5 6))' | \
  emacs -Q --batch --eval '(pp (read-from-minibuffer "" nil nil t))'

This may or may not be a good idea.

> Tomi