Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The problem with adding new APIs with different names to the JSON > module is that it breaks symmetry with other wire protocols. The > quartet of module level load, loads, dump and dumps functions has > become a de facto standard API for wire protocols.
Breaking symmetry is terribly less silly than having a second module doing almost the same thing, though. > The advantage of a separate "jsonb" module is that it becomes easy to > say "json is the text transform that dumps and loads from a Unicode > string, jsonb is the wire protocol that dumps and loads a UTF encoded > byte sequence". This is a terribly lousy design. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19837> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
