Bulletproof json.dump?

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Tue Jul 7 13:00:52 EDT 2020


Try jsonlight.dumps it'll just work.

Le mar. 7 juil. 2020 à 12:53, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> a écrit :

> On 2020-07-06, Adam Funk wrote:
>
> > On 2020-07-06, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:11 PM Jon Ribbens via Python-list
> >><python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> >>> While I agree entirely with your point, there is however perhaps room
> >>> for a bit more helpfulness from the json module. There is no sensible
> >>> reason I can think of that it refuses to serialize sets, for example.
> >>
> >> Sets don't exist in JSON. I think that's a sensible reason.
> >
> > I don't agree.  Tuples & lists don't exist separately in JSON, but
> > both are serializable (to the same thing).  Non-string keys aren't
> > allowed in JSON, but it silently converts numbers to strings instead
> > of barfing.  Typically, I've been using sets to deduplicate values as
> > I go along, & having to walk through the whole object changing them to
> > lists before serialization strikes me as the kind of pointless labor
> > that I expect when I'm using Java.  ;-)
>
> Here's another "I'd expect to have to deal with this sort of thing in
> Java" example I just ran into:
>
>
> >>> r = requests.head(url, allow_redirects=True)
> >>> print(json.dumps(r.headers, indent=2))
> ...
> TypeError: Object of type CaseInsensitiveDict is not JSON serializable
> >>> print(json.dumps(dict(r.headers), indent=2))
> {
>   "Content-Type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
>   "Server": "openresty",
> ...
> }
>
>
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