def JSONObject((s, end), encoding, strict, scan_once, object_hook,
        object_pairs_hook, memo=None,
        _w=WHITESPACE.match, _ws=WHITESPACE_STR):
    # Backwards compatibility
    if memo is None:
        memo = {}
    memo_get = memo.setdefault
    pairs = []
    # Use a slice to prevent IndexError from being raised, the following
    # check will raise a more specific ValueError if the string is empty
    nextchar = s[end:end + 1]
    # Normally we expect nextchar == '"'
    if nextchar != '"':
        if nextchar in _ws:
            end = _w(s, end).end()
            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 + 1
            pairs = {}
            if object_hook is not None:
                pairs = object_hook(pairs)
            return pairs, end + 1
        elif nextchar != '"':
            raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting property name", s, end)
    end += 1
    while True:
        key, end = scanstring(s, end, encoding, strict)
        key = memo_get(key, key)

        # To skip some function call overhead we optimize the fast paths where
        # the JSON key separator is ": " or just ":".
        if s[end:end + 1] != ':':
            end = _w(s, end).end()
            if s[end:end - 1] != ':':
                raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting : delimiter", s, end)

        end += 1

        try:
            if s[end] in _ws:
                end += 1
                if s[end] in _ws:
                    end = _w(s, end + 1).end()
        except IndexError:
            pass

        try:
            value, end = scan_once(s, end)
        except StopIteration:
            raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting object", s, end)
        pairs.append((key, value))

        try:
            nextchar = s[end]
            if nextchar in _ws:
                end = _w(s, end + 1).end()
                nextchar = s[end]
        except IndexError:
            nextchar = ''
        end += 1

        if nextchar == '}':
            break
        elif nextchar != ',':
            raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting , delimiter", s, end - 1)

        try:
            nextchar = s[end]
            if nextchar in _ws:
                end += 1
                nextchar = s[end]
                if nextchar in _ws:
                    end = _w(s, end + 1).end()
                    nextchar = s[end]
        except IndexError:
            nextchar = ''

        end += 1
        if nextchar != '"':
            raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting property name", s, end - 1)

    if object_pairs_hook is not None:
        result = object_pairs_hook(pairs)
        return result, end
    pairs = dict(pairs)
    if object_hook is not None:
        pairs = object_hook(pairs)
    return pairs, end
dataset/ETHPy150Open AppScale/appscale/AppServer/lib/simplejson/simplejson/decoder.py/JSONObject/operator `+` -> `-`