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authorFelix Crux <felixc@felixcrux.com>2013-08-12 21:39:51 (GMT)
committerFelix Crux <felixc@felixcrux.com>2013-08-12 21:39:51 (GMT)
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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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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)