[gostsamo]

I'm sure that the pydantic guys had a reason to rename .dict to .model_dump. This single change caused so much grieve when upgrading to pydantic2.1 The very idea of unnecessary breaking changes is a big reason not to over rely on pydantic, tbh.

1 we were using .dict to introduce pydantic in the mix of other entity schemes and handling this change later was a significant pain in the neck. Some python introspection mechanism that can facilitate deep object recasting might've been nice if possible.

[jmogly]

Haha, ChatGPT recommends this:

from pydantic import BaseModel

class MyModel(BaseModel): name: str

    def dict(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.model_dump(*args, **kwargs)

[gostsamo]

Yep, and when you are done migrating, you need to remove this, and there is pydantic3 coming. Keeping in mind the number of libraries nad microservices involved, search and replace was the easier option.

PS: thank you, I can think on my own and even failing that, chat gpt is not in closed beta any more.

[the__alchemist]

Representing structured data as key/value pairs is a pattern I've only seen in Python, and don't understand why it became popular and canonical.

[halfcat]

> Representing structured data as key/value pairs is a pattern I've only seen in Python

Come on. We know you’ve seen JavaScript.