From 6eb2609d1eaaf15eec6a593f8bb1b2db773a0d32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ismael Carnales <icarnales@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:34:56 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] removed old serializators from newitem

---
 scrapy/newitem/serialization.py | 18 ------------------
 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 scrapy/newitem/serialization.py

diff --git a/scrapy/newitem/serialization.py b/scrapy/newitem/serialization.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e22285018..000000000
--- a/scrapy/newitem/serialization.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-import simplejson
-
-from scrapy.utils.serialization import ScrapyJSONEncoder
-
-
-def item_to_dict(item):
-    """Returns a dict representation of an item"""
-    res = {}
-    for field in item.fields:
-        res[field] = getattr(item, field)
-        
-    return res
-
-
-def item_to_json(item):
-    """Returns a json representation of an item"""
-    return simplejson.dumps(item_to_dict(item), cls=ScrapyJSONEncoder)
-