On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 01:17, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > Paul Moore wrote: > > So you're proposing a change to the Python > > language stdlib implementation of that translation. Fine. But you have > > yet to provide a justification for such a change, > > I think it can be justified on the grounds that it allows all of the > information in the JSON text to be preserved during both deserialisation > and serialisation. > > Seems to me this is objectively better. You can always discard > information you don't need, but you can't get it back if you need > it and it's not there.
Agreed. *That* is a reasonable justification. Whether it's sufficient to get the change accepted to Python remains to be seen, but that can be decided once a PR is submitted. Backward compatibility probably requires that it be opt-in, and the reduced performance and import cost of Decimal probably means it needs care to implement it efficiently, without reducing performance for people who don't opt into it, but those are details that can be thrashed out in the implementation. So IMO, the next step is probably an issue on bpo, combined with a PR implementing the proposed behaviour. I don't think this is big enough to need a PEP, and I don't think any more debate is really needed here. Someone motivated and able to do the work is really what's needed next. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/CMP342ELWOVBONPNUWBIX4XJEEKQXHXD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
