Python-list Digest, Vol 201, Issue 9

[Rhodri James]

On 09/06/2020 18:31, Joseph Jenne via Python-list wrote:
> On 2020-06-09 09:00, zljubisic at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Well the problem that I am facing with is, that I have to establish 
>> interface between python and outer system.
>>
>> Original question was about creation of input object (data that I have 
>> received from outer system). If I accept recommendation to use "from_" 
>> instead of "from", it could work, for processing input, because 
>> processing is under my control.
>>
>> However, my process will create output object that I should json 
>> serialize and return back to outer system as a response to the input. 
>> If I will have "from_" object property instead of "from", I believe 
>> that I should write a custom object to json serializer in order to 
>> support changing names from "from_" to "from".
> 
> It should be possible to name it from_ and then insert it into the 
> __dict__ as 'from', although a custom serializer
> would probably be preferable from a design standpoint.

Might it be simpler to use a dict from the start?  You could have a 
dictionary key of "from" without any problems.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd