[Python-ideas] Json object-level serializer

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:35:41 +0200
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> How about letting json use the __reduce__ protocol instead?

Maybe that's because I've never used it, but I find this protocol is
very complex for this simple use case


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