Sept. 11, 2020
11:19 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 12:59 PM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
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.
By the same reasoning, though, if you have dumps(), writing dump() in terms of it is a three-line function. Same in the venerable pickle versions.