[issue18264] enum.IntEnum is not compatible with JSON serialisation

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

The proposal to change json from using repr() to str() has unknown dangers.

I don't want the str() of IntEnum to return just the decimal string (e.g. "42"), since that breaks half of the usefulness of using the enum in the first place -- people will write print(x) and be confused.

Unfortunately the json module doesn't have a way to define *in the object* how to customize its serialization -- this is always done in the json encoder/decoder.  Maybe we can add something to the JSON encoder and decoder class that looks for a special method, e.g. __json_encode__ etc.?  (OR maybe this would be a use case for PEP 443?)

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nosy: +gvanrossum

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