Broken decode() backwards compatibility

[cwillu]

Previously, demjson.decode() was documented as having the following signature:

decode(txt, strict=False, encoding=None, **kw)

Now it has the following signature:

decode(txt, encoding=None, **kw)

This breaks code that assumes that strict is the second positional keyword.

Additionally, the resulting error is non-obvious:

>>> demjson.decode('{}', True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/demjson.py", line 5701, in decode
    return_stats=(return_stats or write_stats) )
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/demjson.py", line 4917, in decode
    raise errors[0]
demjson.JSONDecodeError: a Unicode decoding error occurred

[dmeranda]

What version were you coming from and going to? From 1.x to 2.x, or something different?

Note that demjson 2.0 was a major release that introduced many backwards incompatibilities from 1.x versions. I attempted to document everything, though this particular function signature change may not have been.

You can read about most of the changes here: http://deron.meranda.us/python/demjson/changes

[dmeranda]

Closing.