Python JSON serialize a Decimal object
Simplejson 2.1 and higher has native support for Decimal type: >>> json.dumps(Decimal(‘3.9’), use_decimal=True) ‘3.9’ Note that use_decimal is True by default: def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None, encoding=’utf-8′, default=None, use_decimal=True, namedtuple_as_object=True, tuple_as_array=True, bigint_as_string=False, sort_keys=False, item_sort_key=None, for_json=False, ignore_nan=False, **kw): So: >>> json.dumps(Decimal(‘3.9’)) ‘3.9’ Hopefully, this feature will be included in standard library.