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

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

Yes for float() -- but for str() it would seem redundant? (Or what's
the context?)

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Ethan Furman <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Ethan Furman added the comment:
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> On 06/21/2013 07:49 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Eli Bendersky added the comment:
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>>> Practically speaking, what should be done to make enum play well with JSON
>>> without writing new PEPs? I think we still want to convert those stdlib
>>> constants to IntEnums...
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>> Change json to call int() first.
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> Should we have json call float() and str() first as well?  I'm thinking less of the stdlib and more of the unsuspecting
> user.
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