Serializing Datatypes Unsupported by JSON

Even if JSON has no built-in support for bytes, that doesn’t mean you can’t serialize bytes objects. The json module provides extensibility hooks for encoding and decoding unknown datatypes. (By “unknown,” I mean “not defined in JSON.” Obviously the json module knows about byte arrays, but it’s constrained by the limitations of the JSON specification.) If you want to encode bytes or other datatypes that JSON doesn’t support natively, you need to provide custom encoders and decoders for those types.