LookupError: unknown encoding: hex about simplejson HOT 4 CLOSED

hmm, I have the same issue on an appliance running a subset of 2.6.1 (also on 2.4.3).
I is a known fact that these appliances only provide a large subset of python, so I guess it's not an issue pertaining to simplejson.
Having said that, any chance you can tell me which version of simplejson introduced '7FF80000000000007FF0000000000000'.decode('hex') ???
Thanks in advance

from simplejson.

Something is wrong with your server.

$ python2.6
Python 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Jul 31 2011, 19:30:54)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

'7FF80000000000007FF0000000000000'.decode('hex')
'\x7f\xf8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x7f\xf0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

$ python2.5
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 12 2008, 18:44:03)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

'7FF80000000000007FF0000000000000'.decode('hex')
'\x7f\xf8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x7f\xf0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

from simplejson.

Never mind, found out that it was always there.
I guess this should work -- or did I miss something?
_BYTES = ''.join([chr(int(x,16)) for x in ['7F','F8','00','00','00','00','00','00','7F','F0','00','00','00','00','00','00']])

from simplejson.

I got the same problem in a subset of 2.4.3, It solves by adding

from encodings import hex_codec

in file simplejson.decoder.py

from simplejson.