dumb-object-serialization.py

# Answering this question:
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3679306/

>>> import json
>>> class Foo(object):
...     def __init__(self, a, b):
...         self.a = a
...         self.b = b
...
>>> foo = Foo('a string', ['a', 'list', 'of', 'strings'])
>>> foo
<__main__.Foo object at 0x1006ae190>
>>> json.dumps(foo.__dict__)
'{"a": "a string", "b": ["a", "list", "of", "strings"]}'
>>> json.loads(_)
{'a': 'a string', 'b': ['a', 'list', 'of', 'strings']}
>>> foo2 = Foo(**_)
>>> foo2
<__main__.Foo object at 0x1006ae0d0>
>>> foo2.__dict__ 
{'a': 'a string', 'b': ['a', 'list', 'of', 'strings']}

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