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import json
import HTMLParser

h = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()


def decode_url_json_string(json_string):
    strings = json.loads(h.unescape(json_string),
                         object_pairs_hook=parse_json_pairs)
    return strings


# TODO: BenM/assessor_of_assessor/document me!
# useful function for preventing key-value pairs in serialized json from being
# auto-converted to unicode
def parse_json_pairs(pairs):
    sink_pairs = []
    for k, v in pairs:
        if isinstance(k, unicode):
            k = k.encode('utf-8')
        if isinstance(v, unicode):
            v = v.encode('utf-8')
        sink_pairs.append((k, v))
    return dict(sink_pairs)

import json
import HTMLParser

h = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()


def decode_url_json_string(json_string):
    strings = json.loads(h.unescape(json_string),
                         object_pairs_hook=parse_json_pairs)
    return strings


# TODO: BenM/assessor_of_assessor/document me!
# useful function for preventing key-value pairs in serialized json from being
# auto-converted to unicode
def parse_json_pairs(pairs):
    sink_pairs = []
    for k, v in pairs:
        if isinstance(k, unicode):
            k = k.encode('utf-8')
        if isinstance(v, unicode):
            v = v.encode('utf-8')
        sink_pairs.append((k, v))
    return dict(sink_pairs)
# TODO: BenM/assessor_of_assessor/document me! # useful function for preventing key-value pairs in serialized json from being # auto-converted to unicode