code: def deserialize(json, cls=None):
      
      LOGGER.debug('deserialize(%s)', json)
  
      out = simplejson.loads(json)
  
      if isinstance(out, dict) and cls is not None:
          return cls(**out)
  
      return out
docs: Deserialize a JSON string into a Python object.
  
      Args:
          json (str): the JSON string.
          cls (:py:class:`object`):
              if the ``json`` is deserialized into a ``dict`` and
              this argument is set,
              the ``dict`` keys are passed as keyword arguments to the
              given ``cls`` initializer.
  
      Returns:
          Python object representation of the given JSON string.