social_media_platform/thesisenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/compat.py

"""Handle reading and writing JSON in UTF-8, on Python 3 and 2."""
import json
import sys

if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    # Python 3
    def write_json(obj, path, **kwargs):
        with open(path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
            json.dump(obj, f, **kwargs)

    def read_json(path):
        with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
            return json.load(f)

else:
    # Python 2
    def write_json(obj, path, **kwargs):
        with open(path, 'wb') as f:
            json.dump(obj, f, encoding='utf-8', **kwargs)

    def read_json(path):
        with open(path, 'rb') as f:
            return json.load(f)