Parsing JSON in IronPython

I was working with TIBCO Spotfire that has hosted IronPython scripting. And I had to process some JSON data, which is easy in Python by doing import json. But that construct gives an import error in IronPython "No module named json".

So I decided to use JavaScriptSerializer .NET class that I have been using in C#:

peopleJson = '''[
    {"name":"Jon", "age": "29", canSing:false, favColors:["red", "white"]},
    {"name":"Lilly", "age": "55", "canSing": true}
]'''
#convert json to string
import clr
clr.AddReference('System.Web.Extensions')
from System.Web.Script.Serialization import JavaScriptSerializer
people = JavaScriptSerializer().DeserializeObject(peopleJson)

for person in people:
    # each line is a dictionary
    print person['name'] + ' ' + person['age']

The output is:

Jon 29
Lilly 55

This is not the only way of course. It is also possible to achieve similar thing using eval, or by importing other more specific libraries.