compat: handle SyntaxError when importing simplejson

We officially support Python 2.6 to 3.3, but simplejson does not
support Python 3.1 or 3.2:

  https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/issues/66

Importing simplejson on Python 3.2 results in a SyntaxError because
simplejson uses the u'...' syntax (the syntax was not supported in
Python 3.0 to 3.2).

Support for loading simplejson instead of the stdlib json module was
added by #710:

  https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/710

No mention was made of the lack of support for Python 3.2, but it was
mentioned that simplejson can be faster than the stdlib json module.

diff --git a/requests/compat.py b/requests/compat.py
index bdf10d6a9f9c0c073f85ca3cbdbc6c12eca610cd..84d703b68e1be4d3c06c3f999bbd11ff8386531a 100644 (file)
--- a/requests/compat.py
+++ b/requests/compat.py
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ is_solaris = ('solar==' in str(sys.platform).lower())   # Complete guess.
 
 try:
     import simplejson as json
-except ImportError:
+except (ImportError, SyntaxError):
+    # simplejson does not support Python 3.2, it thows a SyntaxError
+    # because of u'...' Unicode literals.
     import json
 
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