Python wrapper around rapidjson
Project description
RapidJSON is an extremely fast C++ JSON serialization library.
We do not support legacy Python versions, you will need to upgrade to Python 3 to use this library.
Latest version documentation is automatically rendered by Read the Docs.
Getting Started
First install python-rapidjson:
$ pip install python-rapidjsonRapidJSON tries to be compatible with the standard library json module so it should be a drop in replacement. Basic usage looks like this:
>>> import rapidjson
>>> data = {'foo': 100, 'bar': 'baz'}
>>> rapidjson.dumps(data)
'{"bar":"baz","foo":100}'
>>> rapidjson.loads('{"bar":"baz","foo":100}')
{'bar': 'baz', 'foo': 100}If you want to install the development version (maybe to contribute fixes or enhancements) you may clone the repository:
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/python-rapidjson/python-rapidjson.gitPerformance
python-rapidjson tries to be as performant as possible while staying compatible with the json module.
The following tables show a comparison between this module and other libraries with different data sets. Last row (“overall”) is the total time taken by all the benchmarks.
Each number show the factor between the time taken by each contender and python-rapidjson (in other words, they are normalized against a value of 1.0 for python-rapidjson): the lower the number, the speedier the contender.
In bold the winner.
Serialization
serialize |
ujson |
simplejson |
json |
yajl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
100 arrays dict |
1.34 |
5.88 |
3.23 |
1.76 |
100 dicts array |
1.50 |
6.87 |
2.85 |
1.70 |
256 Trues array |
1.36 |
2.40 |
2.08 |
1.12 |
256 ascii array |
0.92 |
1.96 |
1.75 |
1.97 |
256 doubles array |
6.28 |
6.79 |
6.33 |
3.59 |
256 unicode array |
0.65 |
0.82 |
0.87 |
0.52 |
complex object |
1.34 |
4.78 |
3.04 |
2.50 |
composite object |
0.97 |
3.13 |
1.96 |
1.93 |
overall |
1.34 |
5.87 |
3.22 |
1.76 |
Deserialization
deserialize |
ujson |
simplejson |
json |
yajl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
100 arrays dict |
0.96 |
1.46 |
1.19 |
1.21 |
100 dicts array |
0.95 |
1.98 |
1.56 |
1.30 |
256 Trues array |
1.27 |
2.10 |
1.92 |
2.05 |
256 ascii array |
1.38 |
1.13 |
1.23 |
1.56 |
256 doubles array |
0.45 |
1.02 |
0.94 |
0.45 |
256 unicode array |
0.91 |
4.60 |
5.09 |
2.18 |
complex object |
0.96 |
1.48 |
1.27 |
1.26 |
composite object |
0.86 |
2.03 |
1.45 |
1.26 |
overall |
0.96 |
1.46 |
1.20 |
1.21 |
DIY
To run these tests yourself, clone the repo and run:
$ tox -e py34 -- -m benchmark --compare-other-enginesWithout the option --compare-other-engines it will focus only on RapidJSON. This is particularly handy coupled with the compare past runs functionality of pytest-benchmark:
$ tox -e py34 -- -m benchmark --benchmark-autosave
# hack, hack, hack!
$ tox -e py34 -- -m benchmark --benchmark-compare=0001
----------------------- benchmark 'deserialize': 18 tests ------------------------
Name (time in us) Min…
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
test_loads[rapidjson-256 Trues array] (NOW) 5.2320 (1.0)…
test_loads[rapidjson-256 Trues array] (0001) 5.4180 (1.04)…
…To reproduce the tables above, use the option --benchmark-json so that the the results are written in the specified filename the run the benchmark-tables.py script giving that filename as the only argument:
$ tox -e py36 -- -m benchmark --compare-other-engines --benchmark-json=comparison.json
$ python3 benchmark-tables.py comparison.jsonIncompatibility
Here are things in the standard json library supports that we have decided not to support:
separators argument. This is mostly used for pretty printing and not supported by RapidJSON so it isn’t a high priority. We do support indent kwarg that would get you nice looking JSON anyways.
Coercing keys when dumping. json will turn True into 'True' if you dump it out but when you load it back in it’ll still be a string. We want the dump and load to return the exact same objects so we have decided not to do this coercing.
Changes
0.0.11 (2017-03-05)
Fix a couple of refcount handling glitches, hopefully targeting issue 48.
0.0.10 (2017-03-02)
Fix source distribution to contain all required stuff (PR #64)
0.0.9 (2017-03-02)
0.0.8 (2016-12-09)
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