On the one hand I agree with OP on directly interacting with JSON is not really a good idea but on the other hand I completely disagree with that behavior shoul

On the one hand I agree with OP on directly interacting with JSON is not really a good idea but on the other hand I completely disagree with that behavior should be shoved into data objects. Also I think part of the problem is Python doesn't have much typing (I know they recently added optional typing in python but I don't think many use it). As more of an FP guy I'm firm believer of the separation behavior and data. Clojure's Hickey sort of has a valid point... its freaking data... stop making it complicated to access it.