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Re:Box: Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access by johnwheeler on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:51AM (#14274329)
> For the ability to avoid importing json/PyYAML and use clear key lookups?

I think the advantage over json/PyYAML is not having to supply conversion functions for Decimal, datetime, or user defined datatypes.

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Re:Box: Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access by thesmallestcat on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:52AM (#14274341)
I agree that that's useful, but it should be a separate library, and I'd be surprised if there weren't a few already (I'm guilty of writing one-off serializers for datetimes/dates).
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