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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-03-17 07:40:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-03-17 07:40:34 (GMT) |
| commit | f2123d2db54d661a016f02c5a1a02484d6d79e0d (patch) | |
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| parent | eebe1112ffce4e014317cdfad74580ea600602b5 (diff) | |
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3.2 explain json.dumps for non-string keys in dicts. closes issue6566. Patch contributed Kirubakaran Athmanathan
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diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst index a791259..f656700 100644 --- a/Doc/library/json.rst +++ b/Doc/library/json.rst @@ -168,6 +168,14 @@ Basic Usage so trying to serialize multiple objects with repeated calls to :func:`dump` using the same *fp* will result in an invalid JSON file. + .. note:: + + Keys in key/value pairs of JSON are always of the type :class:`str`. When + a dictionary is converted into JSON, all the keys of the dictionary are + coerced to strings. As a result of this, if a dictionary is convered + into JSON and then back into a dictionary, the dictionary may not equal + the original one. That is, ``loads(dumps(x)) != x`` if x has non-string + keys. .. function:: load(fp, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw) |