On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 3:42 PM J. Pic <j...@yourlabs.org> wrote: > I understand, do you think the python standard library should provide a > JSONEncoder and JSONDecoder that supports python standard library objects ? > > It would be optional to use, but if you use it then any object from the > python standard library will just work. >
I think a JSONEncoder for standard types would be nice to have. A JSONDecoder is much more complicated. What would it do? Convert every string that looks like an ISO datetime into a Python datetime object? Or convert objects like `{"type": "datetime", "value": "2020-01-01T12:34:56"}`?
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