#9233: Fix json.loads({}) to return a dict (instead of a list), when _json is not available.
diff --git a/Lib/json/decoder.py b/Lib/json/decoder.py
index b9745f7..eeebf45 100644
--- a/Lib/json/decoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/decoder.py
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@
nextchar = s[end:end + 1]
# Trivial empty object
if nextchar == '}':
+ if object_pairs_hook is not None:
+ result = object_pairs_hook(pairs)
+ return result, end
+ pairs = {}
+ if object_hook is not None:
+ pairs = object_hook(pairs)
return pairs, end + 1
elif nextchar != '"':
raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting property name", s, end))