Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Instead of encoding just as a string, it would be a good idea to encode
>> it as something like:
>>
>> {'__class__': 'base64', 'data': ...}
>
> Is there a benefit to the class indirection, over simply a keyword?:
>
> {'__base64__': ...}
>
> __class__ seems to suggest much more than it's being used for here.
> Depending on how sophisticated your parser is, you could directly push the result into an object of the proper type. And we can add more complex objects in the future that do not only consists of a single data key. Note that this extension is not just about encoding, it is about typecasting (dict -> custom type). Jan
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