minjson serializes single value tuples incorrectly

[clofresh]

>>> import minjson
>>> minjson.write(tuple(['a']))
'["a",]'

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This will affect anyone sending metrics with tags, doesn't have simplejson and is using python < 2.5. Basically CentOS 5 users.

Considering just bundling simplejson if possible, vs fixing a bug in an antiquated json library that probably has more bugs, or just casting tags from a tuple to a list, which does serialize correctly..

[olidb2]

I vote for casting tags into a list right before serializing.
(And this makes me cry too)

[clofresh]

Forgot to mention that since having a trailing comma is invalid json, our intake rejects the whole payload