[Python-ideas] Json object-level serializer

[Alexandre Conrad]

2010/7/29 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> Le jeudi 29 juillet 2010 à 15:47 +0200, Tarek Ziadé a écrit :
>>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> And I don't see how `__json__` is more annoying than e.g. `to_json`.
>>>
>>> Its easier to override
>>
>> Could you expand a little bit?
>
> If you want to override to_json in a subclass, to slightly adapt it, its easier
> because the __json__ name is mangled by Python

I believe that mangling will not be performed if the identifier ends
with more than one underscore. So __json__ won't be mangled.

Regards,
-- 
Alex
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