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?) ---------- nosy: +gvanrossum _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18264> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
