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Yes, you can. By specifying the object_pairs_hook argument to JSONDecoder. In fact, this is the exact example given in the documentation. >>> json.JSONDecoder(object_pairs_hook=collections.OrderedDict).decode(‘{“foo”:1, “bar”: 2}’) OrderedDict([(‘foo’, 1), (‘bar’, 2)]) >>> You can pass this parameter to json.loads (if you don’t need a Decoder instance for other purposes) like so: >>> import json >>> from collections … Read more