JsonResponse for Django<=1.6, included in Django >= 1.7 https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#jsonresponse-objects

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from django.utils import simplejson
from django.http import HttpResponse

class JsonResponse(HttpResponse):
    """
        JSON response
    """
    def __init__(self, content, mimetype='application/json', status=None, content_type=None):
        super(JsonResponse, self).__init__(
            content=simplejson.dumps(content),
            mimetype=mimetype,
            status=status,
            content_type=content_type,
        )

Thank you so much for this. Unfortunately I can't upgrade my company's Django version so this will have to do