json.loads raises a SystemError for invalid encoding on 2.7.2

[Julian]

BPO	13774
Nosy	@amauryfa, @Julian
Files	json_badencoding.patch

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title = 'json.loads raises a SystemError for invalid encoding on 2.7.2'
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[Julian]

>>> import json
>>> json.loads("{}", [1, 2, 3])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
    return cls(encoding=encoding, **kw).decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 359, in __init__
    self.scan_once = scanner.make_scanner(self)
SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call

Python 3.2 and 2.6 are not affected it'd seem, so it looks to be 2.7 only.

[amauryfa]

Here is a patch

[python-dev]

New changeset a9680746ae4a by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc in branch '2.7':
Issue bpo-13774: json: Fix a SystemError when a bogus encoding is passed to
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a9680746ae4a

[amauryfa]

This will be fixed in the next 2.7.3, thanks for the report!