Another nice feature of the built-in JSON library is that you can choose what class to instantiate with the data. The default is a dict, but if you're trying to

Another nice feature of the built-in JSON library is that you can choose what class to instantiate with the data. The default is a dict, but if you're trying to parse Avro records (or something else that cares about field order), you can change that to an OrderedDict.