#5820: fix bug in usage of getreader().

diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 950e4336fd7d4de7b0c5b32319a90387ae616eac..39ca23335373552c73155333dff101f40a5e6c0e 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Basic Usage
    If the contents of *fp* are encoded with an ASCII based encoding other than
    UTF-8 (e.g. latin-1), then an appropriate *encoding* name must be specified.
    Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2) are not allowed, and
-   should be wrapped with ``codecs.getreader(fp)(encoding)``, or simply decoded
+   should be wrapped with ``codecs.getreader(encoding)(fp)``, or simply decoded
    to a :class:`unicode` object and passed to :func:`loads`.
 
    *object_hook* is an optional function that will be called with the result of