Backport PR #6077: allow unicode keys in dicts in json_clean

non-ascii keys would raise UnicodeEncodeError in json_clean on Python 2

IPython/utils/jsonutil.py

@@ -1,16 +1,8 b''
-"""Utilities to manipulate JSON objects.
-"""
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  Copyright (C) 2010-2011  The IPython Development Team
-#
-#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
-#  the file COPYING.txt, distributed as part of this software.
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+"""Utilities to manipulate JSON objects."""
+
+# Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
+# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Imports
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# stdlib
 import math
 import re
 import types
@@ -197,18 +189,6 b' def json_clean(obj):'
       encoded as JSON.  Note that this function does not *encode* its inputs,
       it simply sanitizes it so that there will be no encoding errors later.
 
-    Examples
-    --------
-    >>> json_clean(4)
-    4
-    >>> json_clean(list(range(10)))
-    [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
-    >>> sorted(json_clean(dict(x=1, y=2)).items())
-    [('x', 1), ('y', 2)]
-    >>> sorted(json_clean(dict(x=1, y=2, z=[1,2,3])).items())
-    [('x', 1), ('y', 2), ('z', [1, 2, 3])]
-    >>> json_clean(True)
-    True
     """
     # types that are 'atomic' and ok in json as-is.
     atomic_ok = (unicode_type, type(None))
@@ -247,14 +227,14 b' def json_clean(obj):'
         # key collisions after stringification.  This can happen with keys like
         # True and 'true' or 1 and '1', which collide in JSON.
         nkeys = len(obj)
-        nkeys_collapsed = len(set(map(str, obj)))
+        nkeys_collapsed = len(set(map(unicode_type, obj)))
         if nkeys != nkeys_collapsed:
-            raise ValueError('dict can not be safely converted to JSON: '
+            raise ValueError('dict cannot be safely converted to JSON: '
                              'key collision would lead to dropped values')
         # If all OK, proceed by making the new dict that will be json-safe
         out = {}
         for k,v in iteritems(obj):
-            out[str(k)] = json_clean(v)
+            out[unicode_type(k)] = json_clean(v)
         return out
 
     # If we get here, we don't know how to handle the object, so we just get

IPython/utils/tests/test_jsonutil.py

@@ -1,31 +1,20 b''
-"""Test suite for our JSON utilities.
-"""
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  Copyright (C) 2010-2011  The IPython Development Team
-#
-#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
-#  the file COPYING.txt, distributed as part of this software.
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Imports
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# stdlib
+# coding: utf-8
+"""Test suite for our JSON utilities."""
+
+# Copyright (c) IPython Development Team.
+# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
+
 import datetime
 import json
 from base64 import decodestring
 
-# third party
 import nose.tools as nt
 
-# our own
 from IPython.utils import jsonutil, tz
 from ..jsonutil import json_clean, encode_images
 from ..py3compat import unicode_to_str, str_to_bytes, iteritems
 
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Test functions
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 class Int(int):
     def __str__(self):
         return 'Int(%i)' % self
@@ -148,4 +137,8 b' def test_exception():'
                  ]
     for d in bad_dicts:
         nt.assert_raises(ValueError, json_clean, d)
-    
+
+def test_unicode_dict():
+    data = {u'üniço∂e': u'üniço∂e'}
+    clean = jsonutil.json_clean(data)
+    nt.assert_equal(data, clean)