i want to use jsonpickle to serialize custom classes.
In this case, i have an IPv4Address instance where i just want to return the string representation

So i created a jsonpickle hanlder and and registered it

import jsonpickle
from ipaddress import IPv4Address

@jsonpickle.handlers.register(IPv4Address, base=True)
class JsonHandler(jsonpickle.handlers.BaseHandler):
    def flatten(self, obj, data):
        if isinstance(obj, IPv4Address):
            return str(obj)

When i now create an IPv4 Address instance

addr = IPv4Address('1.1.1.1')
encoded = jsonpickle.encode(addr)

I get the output

'"1.1.1.1"'

Because jsonpickle wraps it in quotes again it becomes this “embedded” string with single and double quotes. Is there a way to tell jsonpickle to not process it further and jsu return the string witjhout having to replace the quotes by hand with encoded.replace()?

i could of course also create a custom IPv4Address class and add the __getstate__ method, but just curios if theres a way to do it with pickle

Thx in advance

Getting a string from jsonpickle without wrapped double quotes