old_contents: #
  #
  
  # Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Google Inc.
  #
  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  # (at your option) any later version.
  #
  # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  # General Public License for more details.
  #
  # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
  # 02110-1301, USA.
  
  """Serializer abstraction module
  
  This module introduces a simple abstraction over the serialization
  backend (currently json).
  
  """
  
  import simplejson
  import ConfigParser
  import re
  
  # Check whether the simplejson module supports indentation
  _JSON_INDENT = 2
  try:
    simplejson.dumps(1, indent=_JSON_INDENT)
  except TypeError:
    _JSON_INDENT = None
  
  _RE_EOLSP = re.compile('\s+$', re.MULTILINE)
  
  
  def DumpJson(data):
    """Serialize a given object.
  
    """
    if _JSON_INDENT is None:
      txt = simplejson.dumps(data)
    else:
      txt = simplejson.dumps(data, indent=_JSON_INDENT)
    if not txt.endswith('\n'):
      txt += '\n'
    txt = _RE_EOLSP.sub("", txt)
    return txt
  
  
  def LoadJson(txt):
    """Unserialize data from a string.
  
    """
    return simplejson.loads(txt)
  
  
  Dump = DumpJson
  Load = LoadJson
  
new_contents: #
  #
  
  # Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Google Inc.
  #
  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  # (at your option) any later version.
  #
  # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  # General Public License for more details.
  #
  # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
  # 02110-1301, USA.
  
  """Serializer abstraction module
  
  This module introduces a simple abstraction over the serialization
  backend (currently json).
  
  """
  
  import simplejson
  import re
  
  # Check whether the simplejson module supports indentation
  _JSON_INDENT = 2
  try:
    simplejson.dumps(1, indent=_JSON_INDENT)
  except TypeError:
    _JSON_INDENT = None
  
  _RE_EOLSP = re.compile('[ \t]+$', re.MULTILINE)
  
  
  def DumpJson(data):
    """Serialize a given object.
  
    """
    if _JSON_INDENT is None:
      txt = simplejson.dumps(data)
    else:
      txt = simplejson.dumps(data, indent=_JSON_INDENT)
    txt = _RE_EOLSP.sub("", txt)
    if not txt.endswith('\n'):
      txt += '\n'
    return txt
  
  
  def LoadJson(txt):
    """Unserialize data from a string.
  
    """
    return simplejson.loads(txt)
  
  
  Dump = DumpJson
  Load = LoadJson
  
subject: Make sure serialized data ends with EOL character