improved ui, render waiting files

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/module/utils/__init__.py b/module/utils/__init__.py
index 8f7ed6231..901f553e7 100644
--- a/module/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/module/utils/__init__.py
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ from string import maketrans
 from itertools import islice
 from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
 
+# abstraction layer for json operations
+try: # since python 2.6
+    import json
+except ImportError: #use system simplejson if available
+    import simplejson as json
+
+json_loads = json.loads
+json_dumps = json.dumps
+
 def decode(string):
     """ decode string with utf if possible """
     try: