On 2020-07-06, Frank Millman wrote:
> On 2020-07-06 2:06 PM, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
>> On 2020-07-06, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:36 PM Adam Funk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Is there a "bulletproof" version of json.dump somewhere that will
>>>> convert bytes to str, any other iterables to list, etc., so you can
>>>> just get your data into a file & keep working?
>>>
>>> That's the PHP definition of "bulletproof" - whatever happens, no
>>> matter how bad, just keep right on going.
>>
>> While I agree entirely with your point, there is however perhaps room
>> for a bit more helpfulness from the json module. There is no sensible
>> reason I can think of that it refuses to serialize sets, for example.
>> Going a bit further and, for example, automatically calling isoformat()
>> on date/time/datetime objects would perhaps be a bit more controversial,
>> but would frequently be useful, and there's no obvious downside that
>> occurs to me.
>>
>
> I may be missing something, but that would cause a downside for me.
>
> I store Python lists and dicts in a database by calling dumps() when
> saving them to the database and loads() when retrieving them.
>
> If a date was 'dumped' using isoformat(), then on retrieval I would not
> know whether it was originally a string, which must remain as is, or was
> originally a date object, which must be converted back to a date object.
>
> There is no perfect answer, but my solution works fairly well. When
> dumping, I use 'default=repr'. This means that dates get dumped as
> 'datetime.date(2020, 7, 6)'. I look for that pattern on retrieval to
> detect that it is actually a date object.
>
> I use the same trick for Decimal objects.
>
> Maybe the OP could do something similar.
Aha, I think the default=repr option is probably just what I need;
maybe (at least in the testing stages) something like this:
try:
with open(output_file, 'w') as f:
json.dump(f)
except TypeError:
print('unexpected item in the bagging area!')
with open(output_file, 'w') as f:
json.dump(f, default=repr)
and then I'd know when I need to go digging through the output for
bytes, sets, etc., but at least I'd have the output to examine.
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