First off, out of the box, Django lets you construct API responses with a little work. All you need to do is something like this:

# Copied from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/class-based-views/#more-than-just-html
from django import http
from django.utils import simplejson as json

class JSONResponseMixin ...

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