David Shawley wrote:
I'm +1 on adding support for serializing datetime.date and datetime.datetime *but* I'm -1 on automatically deserializing anything that looks like a ISO-8601 in json.load*. The asymmetry is the only thing that kept me from bringing this up previously.
This asymmetry bothers me too. It makes me think that datetime handling belongs at a different level of abstraction, something that knows about the structure of the data being serialised or deserialised. Java's JSON libraries have a mechanism where you can give it a class and a lump of JSON and it will figure out from runtime type information what to do. It seems like we should be able to do something similar using type annotations. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
