On 6/10/2020 9:48 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 3:42 PM J. Pic <j...@yourlabs.org
<mailto:j...@yourlabs.org>> wrote:
I understand, do you think the python standard library should
provide a JSONEncoder and JSONDecoder that supports python
standard library objects ?
It would be optional to use, but if you use it then any object
from the python standard library will just work.
I think a JSONEncoder for standard types would be nice to have.
A JSONDecoder is much more complicated. What would it do? Convert
every string that looks like an ISO datetime into a Python datetime
object? Or convert objects like `{"type": "datetime", "value":
"2020-01-01T12:34:56"}`?
The general problem here is that if you're encoding things for a
non-python program to use, you can't do something non-standard like the
above. And if you're looking for something that only other python
programs can use, you're better off using pickle or some other non-JSON
format.
That's why these ideas never result in any changes to the stdlib json
library.
Eric
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