On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:53 AM <lammenspa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe unrelated, but the same goes for `pickle.load` and `pickle.dump`. For 
> consistencies, any changes made to `json.load` and `json.dump` (e.g. adding 
> `json.loadf` and `json.dumpf` or accepting a path like as argument) should be 
> also applied equivalently to `pickle.load` and `pickle.dump`.
>
> Off the top of my head, I can't think of any more places in the standard 
> library with the same parallel structure.
>

marshal is the other one in that set, and a quick 'git grep' shows
that plistlib also has that API. The xmlrpc.client module also has
dumps/loads, but not dump/load.

ChrisA
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