When I try to ‘import simplejson’ (or something that depends on it) in IronPython 2.0, I get ‘LookupError: unknown encoding: hex’. How do I make this work?
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When I try to ‘import simplejson’ (or something that depends on it) in IronPython 2.0, I get ‘LookupError: unknown encoding: hex’. How do I make this work?
The workaround for this is to import the hex codec manually before attempting to import the broken dependency:
The issue is being tracked by IronPython, but so far, they claim it’s a bug in the standard Python library.