What happened to "not every three-line function needs to be a built-in"? This is *literally* a three-line function. And I know the proposal is not to make it a builtin, but still... ISTM down here lies the path to PHP. On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 3:16 PM Christopher Barker <pythonchb@gmail.com> wrote:
I"m pretty sure this came up recently, and was pretty much rejected.
Another option would be to have json.dump take a file-like-object or a path-like object -- there's plenty of code out there that does that.
hmm.. maybe that was the version that was rejected.
But I like the idea either way. it always seemed cumbersome to me to write the whole context manager in these kinds of cases.
-CHB
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:05 PM The Nomadic Coder < atemysemicolon@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally prefer it to be in the json module as it just feels more logical. But that's just a personal choice.
I didn't mention about dumpf as I see a previous thread that became quite controversial (seems like dumps was a more common usage at that time).
Something I forgot to mention : A (non-exact)search for this construct in github (https://github.com/search?q=with+open+%3A+json.load&type=Code) gives 20million+ results. Seems like it's a popular set of statements that people use ...
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