Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle

From	Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Subject	Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle
Date	2014-09-05 13:30 -0400
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On 9/5/14 1:16 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>:
>
>> Therefore, if you want it to be able to drop it into Python's REPL, it
>> won't be compatible with JSON anyway! (Well, not unless you define
>> 'true' and 'false' first.)
>
> Sigh. I was so hopeful JSON would be great. Unfortunately, it flopped by
> requiring the parser to heuristically support 5 encoding systems.

I don't understand how JSON has flopped?  The parser may be a bit more 
complex (but not much, it isn't hard to examine the first few bytes), 
but you're using off-the-shelf parsers anyway, so why are you concerned 
by this?

>
> Thus, ast.literal_eval() is superior to anything JSON has to offer.
>
>
> Marko
>


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Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com

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Storing instances using jsonpickle Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 13:32 -0700
  Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-03 16:52 -0400
    Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 15:30 -0700
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-04 00:39 +0100
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-09-04 01:11 +0000
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-03 22:18 -0400
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Sam Raker <sam.raker@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 21:52 -0700
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2014-09-15 12:30 -0700
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-04 15:17 +1000
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-09-05 04:38 +0000
          Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 15:08 +1000
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-04 12:07 +0100
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-05 18:04 +0100
        Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-05 20:16 +0300
          Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-05 13:30 -0400
            Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-05 21:04 +0300
              Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-05 16:50 -0400
                Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-09-05 23:57 +0300
          Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2014-09-06 00:18 +0200
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 10:20 +1000
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-06 17:32 +0100
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-09-06 12:56 -0400
      Re: Storing instances using jsonpickle Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-06 14:27 -0400

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