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author | Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com> | 2012-10-28 12:10:30 (GMT) |
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committer | Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com> | 2012-10-28 12:10:30 (GMT) |
commit | 2ec53be2e272bbe475b2c8173a03dbb29d1413ba (patch) | |
tree | 89e116cd3776541968a67a12c742eba14092214b /Lib/json | |
parent | 0dccbe138776715a3778e97b92cc1922f172f3ab (diff) | |
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Issue #14570: Document json sort_keys parameter properly.
Patch by Chris Rebert.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/json')
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/json/__init__.py | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py index 725b5cd..86a7a3e 100644 --- a/Lib/json/__init__.py +++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ _default_encoder = JSONEncoder( def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None, - default=None, **kw): + default=None, sort_keys=False, **kw): """Serialize ``obj`` as a JSON formatted stream to ``fp`` (a ``.write()``-supporting file-like object). @@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, ``default(obj)`` is a function that should return a serializable version of obj or raise TypeError. The default simply raises TypeError. + If *sort_keys* is ``True`` (default: ``False``), then the output of + dictionaries will be sorted by key. + To use a custom ``JSONEncoder`` subclass (e.g. one that overrides the ``.default()`` method to serialize additional types), specify it with the ``cls`` kwarg; otherwise ``JSONEncoder`` is used. @@ -164,7 +167,7 @@ def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, if (not skipkeys and ensure_ascii and check_circular and allow_nan and cls is None and indent is None and separators is None and - default is None and not kw): + default is None and not sort_keys and not kw): iterable = _default_encoder.iterencode(obj) else: if cls is None: @@ -172,7 +175,7 @@ def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, iterable = cls(skipkeys=skipkeys, ensure_ascii=ensure_ascii, check_circular=check_circular, allow_nan=allow_nan, indent=indent, separators=separators, - default=default, **kw).iterencode(obj) + default=default, sort_keys=sort_keys, **kw).iterencode(obj) # could accelerate with writelines in some versions of Python, at # a debuggability cost for chunk in iterable: @@ -181,7 +184,7 @@ def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None, - default=None, **kw): + default=None, sort_keys=False, **kw): """Serialize ``obj`` to a JSON formatted ``str``. If ``skipkeys`` is false then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types @@ -213,6 +216,9 @@ def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, ``default(obj)`` is a function that should return a serializable version of obj or raise TypeError. The default simply raises TypeError. + If *sort_keys* is ``True`` (default: ``False``), then the output of + dictionaries will be sorted by key. + To use a custom ``JSONEncoder`` subclass (e.g. one that overrides the ``.default()`` method to serialize additional types), specify it with the ``cls`` kwarg; otherwise ``JSONEncoder`` is used. @@ -222,14 +228,14 @@ def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, if (not skipkeys and ensure_ascii and check_circular and allow_nan and cls is None and indent is None and separators is None and - default is None and not kw): + default is None and not sort_keys and not kw): return _default_encoder.encode(obj) if cls is None: cls = JSONEncoder return cls( skipkeys=skipkeys, ensure_ascii=ensure_ascii, check_circular=check_circular, allow_nan=allow_nan, indent=indent, - separators=separators, default=default, + separators=separators, default=default, sort_keys=sort_keys, **kw).encode(obj) |