[Python-checkins] bpo-17909: Document that json.load can accept a binary IO (GH-7366)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f38ace61a39e64f5fde6f8f402e258177bdf7ff4
commit: f38ace61a39e64f5fde6f8f402e258177bdf7ff4
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-06-07T03:17:15-07:00
summary:
bpo-17909: Document that json.load can accept a binary IO (GH-7366)
(cherry picked from commit bb6366bd7570ff3b74bc66095540bea78f31504e)
Co-authored-by: Anthony Sottile <asottile at umich.edu>
files:
M Doc/library/json.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 85798fa2cf72..d65fb3f1c33e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@ Basic Usage
.. function:: load(fp, *, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw)
- Deserialize *fp* (a ``.read()``-supporting :term:`file-like object`
- containing a JSON document) to a Python object using this :ref:`conversion
- table <json-to-py-table>`.
+ Deserialize *fp* (a ``.read()``-supporting :term:`text file` or
+ :term:`binary file` containing a JSON document) to a Python object using
+ this :ref:`conversion table <json-to-py-table>`.
*object_hook* is an optional function that will be called with the result of
any object literal decoded (a :class:`dict`). The return value of
@@ -262,6 +262,10 @@ Basic Usage
.. versionchanged:: 3.6
All optional parameters are now :ref:`keyword-only <keyword-only_parameter>`.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+ *fp* can now be a :term:`binary file`. The input encoding should be
+ UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32.
+
.. function:: loads(s, *, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw)
Deserialize *s* (a :class:`str`, :class:`bytes` or :class:`bytearray`
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