[Python-ideas] Json object-level serializer

[Tarek Ziadé]

Hello,

What about adding in the json package the ability for an object to
provide a different object to serialize ?
This would be useful to translate a class into a structure that can be
passed to json.dumps

So, it __json__ is provided, its used for serialization instead of the
object itself:

>>> import json
>>> class MyComplexClass(object):
...     def __json__(self):
...         return 'json'
...
>>> o = MyComplexClass()
>>> json.dumps(o)
'"json"'



Cheers
Tarek

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