I like the idea of having these functions, but I don't like overloading the argument to a function with "filename or file-like object" as is common in libraries like Pandas.  I think there are a few places the standard library does it, but the separation seems better to me.  

I don't LOVE the names dumpf() and loadf(), but I don't have an obviously better choice.  I guess probably I'd want fromfile() and tofile() as more "modern" names.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:17 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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