It's about ambiguity. Maybe loads is short for load string which in english is also a verb.
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, 12:38 Wes Turner, <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > An IDE with support for PEP 484 / mypy / type annotations (and/or writing > tests) can help minimize typing-related errors. > > https://github.com/python/typeshed/blob/master/stdlib/3/json/__init__.pyi > > > https://github.com/python/mypy/blob/master/README.md#ide-linter-integrations-and-pre-commit > > On Wednesday, November 27, 2019, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > > On 11/27/2019 3:24 PM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > > > >> Greetings list, > >> > >> Using 3.7, in json module of the std lib there is json.load and > json.loads . I gather json.loads is more used to convert string to dict > structure. json.load might cause (it already causes) confusions. > >> > >> Suggestion: Rename json.load() so as not to confuse with json.loads() > >> > > You'd either have to breaking existing code, or having 2 identical > functions with different names. In either case, the churn and confusion > would not be worth it. > > > > Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/INEF3FGBPP4R2DQXEK5ENBVMAOZRLTMM/ > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/B6NRPA2ZSO7573T6JFUCRD73PA4Q2YCA/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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