Re: [cclib-devel] Further JSON support

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

On 19/11/2007, Karol Langner <kar...@kn...> wrote:
> On Monday 19 November 2007 16:29, you wrote:
> > Good point. The user just needs to call listify() beforehand. In that
> > case, listify() should probably return a dictionary, rather than
> > altering the ccData object itself. The dictionary can be written with
> > whatever JSON library the user wants to use...
> >
> > Great! I think we have a winner :-)
>
> I recently added the "getattributes" method, which listifies and returns such
> a dictionary (and later arrayifies) - so that's all that needs to be called.

Well, my point was just that there's no need to call arrayify() if
listify just returns a dictionary. It's also a cleaner solution as it
means that the ccData object will not be perturbed. listify() is not
used by any other code, as far as I know.

> I'll go with anything here. So we are choosing not to provide any intrinsic
> JSON support?
I think so. If there are lots of different libraries that a user might
want to use, the best solution is to allow the user to choose
whichever they want.
> What about pickle?
pickle works already just like for any other Python object. See the
docs on the wiki at:
http://cclib.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Using_cclib

 > Karol
>
> --
> written by Karol Langner
> Mon Nov 19 16:55:31 CET 2007
>