> On the other hand, the fact that we might be adding two new functions to > four different modules is, in my mind, and argument for overloading the > existing dump() / load() instead. a lot less API churn.
I also believe that overloading is the better option here. The whole point of this change is to make a very frequent operation more convenient, and having to keep in mind two distinct pairs of functions, which only differ in the type of the first argument and a few minor things, is less convenient than just using the same functions for both file objects and paths. Besides, I don't understand what the downside of overloading is, apart from purism (?). _______________________________________________ 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/QIHTXSFUQ66YVSVSMC5ZR47VET4NT7SO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
