Create json.JSONType

[brettcannon]

BPO	26396
Nosy	@gvanrossum, @brettcannon, @jstasiak, @AnishShah
Files	jsontype.diff

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closed_at = <Date 2016-03-22.19:32:34.354>
created_at = <Date 2016-02-21.00:44:28.552>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'Create json.JSONType'
updated_at = <Date 2016-03-22.19:32:34.352>
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priority = 'low'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue26396'
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[brettcannon]

See python/typing#182 for the full details, but it should be:

JSONType = t.Union[str, int, float, bool, None, t.Dict[str, t.Any], t.List[Any]]

[brettcannon]

Here is a preliminary patch with docs. I didn't do any tests because I just don't know what kind of test we would want. Use isinstance() to make sure it covers the types we expect? And I'm not sure how to test the key type for mappings.

[gvanrossum]

I'm fine with the patch here. Go for it!

[brettcannon]

I'll add some tests and a note that this was added in Python 3.6 and is provisional along with the typing module.

[brettcannon]

Based on conversations in python/typing#182 I'm closing this as rejected.