How can I flag attributes as being 'ignored' on both serialize and deserialize

[johnsturgeon]

I only want attributes to be ephemeral . I want to have them as part of the data class, but only used at run time, and I don't want them serialized.

How can I do that?

[Fatal1ty]

You can use hooks to exclude attributes from a dictionary or mark the fields as init-only variables.

[johnsturgeon]

Ultimately I did end up using 'hooks', I used a post serialization hook to exclude my ivars from the resulting dict:

  def __post_serialize__(self, d: Dict[Any, Any]) -> Dict[Any, Any]:
        d.pop('kills')
        d.pop('wins')
        d.pop('damage')
        return d

[Fatal1ty]

You can also use __pre_deserialize__ hook and fields with defaults if you want to skip specific keys on deserializarion.