In the case of the Json module, I totally agree. I'm not really concerned with Performance either. It's mostly API flexibility that I care about. I mean, urllib

In the case of the Json module, I totally agree. I'm not really concerned with Performance either. It's mostly API flexibility that I care about. I mean, urllib is always such a great example of an overcomplicated and inflexible API with bad naming conventions. The Json module really did a good job in learning from previous mistakes. `json.loads()` and `json.dumps()` couldn't be any easier to use. Though, I would argue that the json module's ease of use is owed more to the fact that Python dictionaries map pretty much 1-to-1 with JSON already.