From 3e9aa298719f19d5f09dbe0df29b6bb8d2136229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 22:09:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Refs #16850 -- Removed obsolete simplejson support in JSON
 serializer.

cpython's json version is 2.0.9 so this line is never used.
---
 django/core/serializers/json.py | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/django/core/serializers/json.py b/django/core/serializers/json.py
index af5c74d9fd..5d35440a6c 100644
--- a/django/core/serializers/json.py
+++ b/django/core/serializers/json.py
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ class Serializer(PythonSerializer):
     internal_use_only = False
 
     def _init_options(self):
-        if json.__version__.split('.') >= ['2', '1', '3']:
-            # Use JS strings to represent Python Decimal instances (ticket #16850)
-            self.options.update({'use_decimal': False})
         self._current = None
         self.json_kwargs = self.options.copy()
         self.json_kwargs.pop('stream', None)