[Python-ideas] Add pathlib.Path.write_json andpathlib.Path.read_json

[Nick Timkovich]

>
> I attended a talk at PYCON UK that talked to the point of using object
> composition
> rather then rich interfaces. I cannot recall the term that was used to
> cover this idea.
>

>

Separating things by concern/abstraction (the storage vs. the
serialization) results in easier-to-learn code, *especially* incrementally,
as you can (for example) plug reading from a file, a socket, a database
into the same JSON, INI, XML... functions.

Learn N ways to read data, M ways to transform the data, and you can do N*M
things with N+M knowledge. If the libraries start tightly coupling
everything, you need to start going through N*M methods, then do it
yourself anyways, because reader X doesn't support new-hotness-format Y
directly.

Perhaps less code could result from making objects "quack" alike, so
instead of you doing the plumbing, the libraries themselves would. I
recently was satisfied by being able to exchange

    with open('dump.txt') as f:
        for line in f:...

with

    import gzip
    with gzip.open('dump.gz', 'rt') as f:
        for line in f:...

and it just worked through the magic of file-like objects and context
managers.

Nick
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