def METHOD_NAME(self):
    # Several optimizations were made that skip over calls to
    # the whitespace regex, so this test is designed to try and
    # exercise the uncommon cases. The array cases are already covered.
    rval = self.loads('{   "key"    :    "value"    ,  "k":"v"    }')
    self.assertEqual(rval, {"key":"value", "k":"v"})