Easy Json serialize / Deserialize in Python

JsonSerializeDeserialize.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: <utf-8> -*-
from __future__ import print_function
import json

try:
    from types import SimpleNamespace as Namespace
except ImportError:
    # Python 2.x fallback
    from argparse import Namespace

#This converts your data to Json
def serialize(self, ServerName="something", port=1,
    username="something", password="something",
    routingMap=[{"ApplicationName":"something","dataFileLocation":"./","QueueName":"something"}]):
    toBeConvertedToJson = {}
    toBeConvertedToJson["ServerName"] = ServerName
    toBeConvertedToJson["port"] = port
    toBeConvertedToJson["username"] = self.crypto.encrypt(username)
    toBeConvertedToJson["password"] = self.crypto.encrypt(password)
    toBeConvertedToJson["Description"] = "This application pushed application information to Rabbitmq"
    # Routing Map, iterate though items and convert to UTF-8
    toBeConvertedToJson["routingMap"] = routingMap
    #rabbitmqinformation["routingMap"] = self.makeRoutes()
    return json.dumps(toBeConvertedToJson, indent=4, encoding="utf-8")

#This uses namespaces to return a dictionary value to make it easier to access the json values
def deserialize(self, data):
    dataDic = json.loads(data, object_hook=lambda d: Namespace(**d))
    self.servername = dataDic.ServerName.encode("utf-8")
    self.port = dataDic.port
    self.routingMap = dataDic.routingMap
    self.username = self.crypto.decrypt(dataDic.username).encode("utf-8")
    self.password = self.crypto.decrypt(dataDic.password).encode("utf-8")