From 586c1621f71c9569c17b6bdbee99a7c238bb301d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harmon <Harmon758@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:02:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Handle simplejson being installed when handling
 JSONDecodeError

---
 tweepy/errors.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tweepy/errors.py b/tweepy/errors.py
index e258c6a..fad1cbf 100644
--- a/tweepy/errors.py
+++ b/tweepy/errors.py
@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@
 # Copyright 2009-2021 Joshua Roesslein
 # See LICENSE for details.
 
-import json
+try:
+    # Handle https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/5794 until requests 2.27.0
+    # is released with https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/5856
+    import simplejson as json
+except ImportError:
+    import json
 
 
 class TweepyException(Exception):
-- 
2.25.1