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Dicts with non-string keys get serialized wrong

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, scala
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing how the Python extension handles the py:runresult examples and where dictionaries are passed through JSON serialization. Reproduce the {1: 2} and {(1,2): 3} cases, then verify that non-string-key dictionaries serialize as lists of pairs without the current incorrect output or exception.

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Description

Copied from with more discussion at: https://github.com/qiemem/PythonExtension/issues/6

Some examples:

observershow py:runresult "{1: 2}"
observer: [["1" 2]]
observershow py:runresult "{(1,2): 3}"
Extension exception: keys must be a string

While JSON is restricted to string keys, we are not. We need to hijack JSON's dict serialization to turn them into a list of pairs instead.

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