Joao S. O. Bueno writes: > If .load and .dump are super-charged, people coding with these > methods in mind have _one_ less_ thing to worry about: if the > method accepts a path or an open file becomes irrelevant.
But then you either lose the primary benefit of this three line function (defaulting to the UTF-8 encoding to conform to the JSON standard), or you have a situation where what encoding you get can depend on whether you use the name of a file or that file already opened. I consider that worse because it's precisely the kind of thing that people *don't* worry about and *do* have some difficulty debugging. _______________________________________________ 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/KO3ZZNTDMFZD26QGPTSNEXP2ALRDWOMF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/