What should the return type of json.dumps be?

[clayg]

Upstream is struggling to get this right:

https://bugs.python.org/issue19837

People that want to support py2 & py3 are probably typing

json.dumps(obj).decode('utf-8')

can/should six offer support here? Is there a place for a from six import json that supports a consistent return type regardless of your python version?

[clayg]

FWIW I think in py3.6 json.loads will transparently accept bytes again...

python/cpython@b161562