[Python-Dev] Dropping bytes "support" in json

[Damien Diederen]

Hi Eric,

"Eric Smith" <eric at trueblade.com> writes:
>> I couldn't figure out a way to get rid of it short of multi-#including
>> "templates" and playing with the C preprocessor, however, and have the
>> nagging feeling the latter would be frowned upon by the maintainers.
>
> Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but look at Objects/stringlib.
> str.format() and unicode.format() share the same implementation, using
> stringdefs.h and unicodedefs.h.

That's indeed a much better example!  I'm more confortable applying the
same technique to the json module now that I see it used in the core.

(Provided Bob and Antoine are not turned away by the relative ugliness,
that is.)

> Eric.

Cheers,
Damien

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