From: Felix Crux <felixc@felixcrux.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:39:51 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Documenting that json.load may raise a ValueError.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a2~238
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60fb9719a195d55264b3129203790a6b43988442;p=python

Documenting that json.load may raise a ValueError.

Issue #18680: JSONDecoder should document that it raises a ValueError
  for malformed data
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diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 68aef21793..877ccd07ee 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ Basic Usage
    kwarg; otherwise :class:`JSONDecoder` is used.  Additional keyword arguments
    will be passed to the constructor of the class.
 
+   If the data being deserialized is not a valid JSON document, a
+   :exc:`ValueError` will be raised.
 
 .. function:: loads(s, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw)