Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Aug 20 2007, 04:05:19) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)] on linux2
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>>> import simplejson
>>> simplejson.loads("['python-genshi-0.4.4-1.fc7']")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 258, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 251, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 268, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self._scanner.iterscan(s, **kw).next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simplejson/scanner.py", line 50, in iterscan
    rval, next_pos = action(m, context)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 173, in JSONArray
    raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting object", s, end))
ValueError: Expecting object: line 1 column 1 (char 1)