Hmm that could be it. Like, Python has json and it works like pickle before it. I don’t think that’s a helper and I like that it reinforces that serialization p

Hmm that could be it. Like, Python has json and it works like pickle before it. I don’t think that’s a helper and I like that it reinforces that serialization pattern. What I think of as helpers are like base64_auth_to_username_password. That’s factoring out like 2-3 lines of code that may be duplicated in a half dozen places, but in truth represents an incomplete abstraction, layer, or subsystem.