UltraJSON is an ultra fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.5+.
To install it just run pip as usual:
$ pip install ujson
May be used as a drop in replacement for most other JSON parsers for Python:
>>> import ujson
>>> ujson.dumps([{"key": "value"}, 81, True])
'[{"key":"value"},81,true]'
>>> ujson.loads("""[{"key": "value"}, 81, true]""")
[{'key': 'value'}, 81, True]
Used to enable special encoding of "unsafe" HTML characters into safer Unicode sequences. Default is False
:
>>> ujson.dumps("<script>John&Doe", encode_html_chars=True)
'"\\u003cscript\\u003eJohn\\u0026Doe"'
Limits output to ASCII and escapes all extended characters above 127. Default is True
. If your end format supports UTF-8, setting this option to false is highly recommended to save space:
>>> ujson.dumps("åäö")
'"\\u00e5\\u00e4\\u00f6"'
>>> ujson.dumps("åäö", ensure_ascii=False)
'"åäö"'
Controls whether forward slashes (/
) are escaped. Default is True
:
>>> ujson.dumps("https://esn.me")
'"http:\\/\\/esn.me"'
>>> ujson.dumps("https://esn.me", escape_forward_slashes=False)
'"https://esn.me"'
Controls whether indentation ("pretty output") is enabled. Default is 0
(disabled):
>>> ujson.dumps({"foo": "bar"})
'{"foo":"bar"}'
>>> print(ujson.dumps({"foo": "bar"}, indent=4))
{
"foo":"bar"
}
UltraJSON calls/sec compared to other popular JSON parsers with performance gain specified below each.
Linux 5.0.0-1032-azure x86_64 #34-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 10 19:37:25 UTC 2020
- CPython 3.8.2 (default, Feb 28 2020, 14:28:43) [GCC 7.4.0]
- nujson : 1.35.2
- orjson : 2.6.1
- simplejson: 3.17.0
- ujson : 2.0.2
ujson | nujson | orjson | simplejson | json | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Array with 256 doubles | |||||
encode | 22,082 | 4,282 | 76,975 | 5,328 | 5,436 |
decode | 24,127 | 34,349 | 29,059 | 14,174 | 13,822 |
Array with 256 UTF-8 strings | |||||
encode | 3,557 | 2,528 | 24,300 | 3,061 | 2,068 |
decode | 2,030 | 2,490 | 931 | 406 | 358 |
Array with 256 strings | |||||
encode | 39,041 | 31,769 | 76,403 | 16,615 | 16,910 |
decode | 25,185 | 24,287 | 34,437 | 32,388 | 27,999 |
Medium complex object | |||||
encode | 10,382 | 11,427 | 32,995 | 3,959 | 5,275 |
decode | 9,785 | 9,796 | 11,515 | 5,898 | 7,200 |
Array with 256 True values | |||||
encode | 114,341 | 101,039 | 344,256 | 62,382 | 72,872 |
decode | 149,367 | 151,615 | 181,123 | 114,597 | 130,392 |
Array with 256 dict{string, int} pairs | |||||
encode | 13,715 | 14,420 | 51,942 | 3,271 | 6,584 |
decode | 12,670 | 11,788 | 12,176 | 6,743 | 8,278 |
Dict with 256 arrays with 256 dict{string, int} pairs | |||||
encode | 50 | 54 | 216 | 10 | 23 |
decode | 32 | 32 | 30 | 20 | 23 |
Dict with 256 arrays with 256 dict{string, int} pairs, outputting sorted keys | |||||
encode | 46 | 41 | 8 | 24 | |
Complex object | |||||
encode | 533 | 582 | 408 | 431 | |
decode | 466 | 454 | 154 | 164 |