On Fri, Sep 11, 2020, 12:59 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:

> What happened to "not every three-line function needs to be a built-in"?
> This is *literally* a three-line function. And I know the proposal is not
> to make it a builtin, but still... ISTM down here lies the path to PHP.
>

By the same reasoning, though, if you have dumps(), writing dump() in terms
of it is a three-line function. Same in the venerable pickle versions.
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