Why serializer only works for QuerySet

Django serializer works really well when you need to serialize a QuerySet, but often times I need to serialize a JSON object with more than just a QuerySet.

This leads me to serialize the QuerySet, and then load it again to a python dict and then serialize it again. Like this:

peopleJSON = serializers.serialize("json", people_queryset)
people_dict = simplejson.loads(peopleJSON )
json = simplejson.dumps({'foo': foo, 'people':people_dict})

A better way would be:

data = {'foo':foo, 'people':people_queryset}

json = serializers.serialize("json", data)

Is there a reason not to allow this behavior? I can't think of one.

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