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> >> *array = json.load( { "name": "Joe", "address": "111 Street" } )*
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> > You are passing a Python dict value to the function. JSON is a
> > serialisation
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> […]
> But none of that belongs in the docstring.
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> […]
> There is PEP 257 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0
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elegant and readable. They might seem a little magic for now if you
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long.
So, those classes should be named ‘Actor’, ‘Movie’, ‘Series’.
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