[Python-ideas] Re: Propouse add context to json module.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 5:50 PM Kazantcev Andrey heckad@yandex.ru wrote:

Chris Angelico wrote:

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Not gonna be 100% reliable and I don't think it belongs in the stdlib, but might be useful.

That is the problem. Sometimes libs import only methods.

I don't see that often, do you have a specific example?

Worst case, you could monkeypatch json.dumps with a version that respects a set of defaults, prior to importing the library in question.

import json orig = json.dumps def dumps(*a, **kw): return orig(*a, **{**json.defaults, **kw}) json.dumps = dumps json.defaults = {}

Definitely hacky though (and you absolutely have to get your imports in the right order) and I would much prefer not to do this. But it's possible.

ChrisA