code: def loads(s, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, **kw):
      
      if cls is None:
          cls = JSONDecoder
      if object_hook is not None:
          kw['object_hook'] = object_hook
      return cls(encoding=encoding, **kw).decode(s)
docs: Deserialize ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode`` instance containing a JSON
      document) to a Python object.
  
      If ``s`` is a ``str`` instance and is encoded with an ASCII based encoding
      other than utf-8 (e.g. latin-1) then an appropriate ``encoding`` name
      must be specified.  Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2)
      are not allowed and should be decoded to ``unicode`` first.
  
      ``object_hook`` is an optional function that will be called with the
      result of any object literal decode (a ``dict``).  The return value of
      ``object_hook`` will be used instead of the ``dict``.  This feature
      can be used to implement custom decoders (e.g. JSON-RPC class hinting).
  
      To use a custom ``JSONDecoder`` subclass, specify it with the ``cls``
      kwarg.