New submission from nervecenter <nervecent...@gmail.com>:
Python has a "batteries included" approach to standard library construction. To that end, commonly used procedures are often included as functions; adding sugar to the language is often exchanged for adding sugar to libraries. One of these common procedures in small-scale scripting tasks is loading a JSON file as simple data structures and saving simple data structures as a JSON file. This is normally handled using context managers, json.load(), and json.dump(). This is a bit cluttered and, I'd argue, not quite as Pythonic as the philosophy demands. I have a small file containing this code: import json def load_file(filename, *args, **kwargs): with open(filename, "r") as fp: data = json.load(fp, *args, **kwargs) return data def save_file(data, filename, *args, **kwargs): with open(filename, "w") as fp: json.dump(data, fp, *args, **kwargs) I'd say, toss these two functions into the json module. Those two functions contain the clutter. For all other users, loading and saving JSON files become one-line function calls. This is convenient and batteries-included. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 388403 nosy: nervecenter priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Include simple file loading and saving functions in JSON standard library. type: enhancement _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43457> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com