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 <eric@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
>
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