bpo-46001: Change OverflowError to RecursionError in JSON library docstrings (GH-29943)

(cherry picked from commit 8db06528cacc94e67eb1fb2e4c2acc061a515671)

Co-authored-by: James Gerity <snoopjedi@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py
index 2c52bde..e4c21da 100644
--- a/Lib/json/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ def dump(obj, fp, *, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
 
     If ``check_circular`` is false, then the circular reference check
     for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
-    result in an ``OverflowError`` (or worse).
+    result in an ``RecursionError`` (or worse).
 
     If ``allow_nan`` is false, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
     serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``)
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ def dumps(obj, *, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
 
     If ``check_circular`` is false, then the circular reference check
     for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
-    result in an ``OverflowError`` (or worse).
+    result in an ``RecursionError`` (or worse).
 
     If ``allow_nan`` is false, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
     serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``) in
diff --git a/Lib/json/encoder.py b/Lib/json/encoder.py
index c8c78b9..21bff2c 100644
--- a/Lib/json/encoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class JSONEncoder(object):
 
         If check_circular is true, then lists, dicts, and custom encoded
         objects will be checked for circular references during encoding to
-        prevent an infinite recursion (which would cause an OverflowError).
+        prevent an infinite recursion (which would cause an RecursionError).
         Otherwise, no such check takes place.
 
         If allow_nan is true, then NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity will be