Bob Ippolito <b...@redivi.com> added the comment: Generally speaking, parsing some things as decimal or datetime are schema dependent. It's unlikely that you would want to parse every string that looks enough like a decimal as a decimal, or that you would want to pay the cost of checking every string in the whole document to see if it's a decimal. This use case is probably better served using something like object_pairs_hook where you have some context available.
Ultimate flexibility is not the goal of this interface. It's grown a bit too much of that over time. At this point I'm a lot more interested in proposals that remove options rather than add them. In order to provide maximal flexibility it would be much nicer to have a streaming interface available (like SAX for XML parsing), but that is not what this is. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue29992> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
