Nov. 3, 2018
8:18 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 1:00 AM David Shawley <daveshawley@gmail.com> wrote:
Very good point. The JSON document type only supports object literals, numbers, strings, and Boolean literals. My suggestion was specifically to provide an extensible mechanism for encoding arbitrary objects into the supported primitives.
Okay, so to clarify: We currently have a mechanism for custom encoders and decoders, which you have to specify as you're thinking about encoding. But you're proposing having the core json.dumps() allow objects to customize their own representation. Sounds like a plan, and not even all that complex a plan. ChrisA