Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > Changing return type based on argument *values* is still a bad idea in > general.
However load() and loads() do this. ;) > It also makes it hard to plug the API in to generic code that is designed > to work with any dump/load based serialisation protocol. For dumps() it will be simple -- `lambda x: json.dumps(x, encoding='utf-8')`. For loads() it will be even simpler -- loads() will accept both strings and bytes. Note that dumps() with the encoding parameter will be more 2.x compatible than current implementation. This will help in writing compatible code. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
