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JSON Serialization

JSON Serialization

Learn about the JSON object serialization in Python.

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The JSON format can serialize a number of commonly used Python object classes, including:

  • None
  • Boolean
  • Float and integer
  • String
  • Lists of compatible objects
  • Dictionaries with string keys and compatible objects as values

The compatible objects can include nested structures. This dictionary-within-list and dictionary-within-dictionary recursion can allow JSON to represent very complex things.

We might consider a theoretical (but invalid) type hint like the following:

JSON = Union[None, bool, int, float, str, List['JSON'], Dict[str, 'JSON']]

This hint isn’t directly supported by mypy, because it involves explicit recursion: the JSON type ...