[Python-ideas] Json object-level serializer

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Alexandre Conrad
<alexandre.conrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ooops I forgot about that :)