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py3: define and use json.loads polyfill

Python 3.5's json.loads() requires a str. Only Python 3.6+
supports passing a bytes or bytearray.

This commit implements a json.loads() polyfill on Python 3.5
so that we can use bytes. The added function to detect encodings
comes verbatim from Python 3.7.

Greg Ward, author of the original bfiles extension
Na'Tosha Bard of Unity Technologies
Fog Creek Software
Special thanks to the University of Toronto and the UCOSP program