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-rw-r--r--Lib/json/__init__.py22
-rw-r--r--Lib/json/decoder.py12
-rw-r--r--Lib/json/encoder.py10
-rw-r--r--Modules/_json.c6
4 files changed, 24 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py
index 6a18518..5d8cb19 100644
--- a/Lib/json/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py
@@ -125,14 +125,12 @@ def dump(obj, fp, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
``.write()``-supporting file-like object).
If ``skipkeys`` is true then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
- (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be
- skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
+ (``str``, ``int``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be skipped
+ instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
- If ``ensure_ascii`` is false, then the some chunks written to ``fp``
- may be ``unicode`` instances, subject to normal Python ``str`` to
- ``unicode`` coercion rules. Unless ``fp.write()`` explicitly
- understands ``unicode`` (as in ``codecs.getwriter()``) this is likely
- to cause an error.
+ If ``ensure_ascii`` is false, then the strings written to ``fp`` can
+ contain non-ASCII characters if they appear in strings contained in
+ ``obj``. Otherwise, all such characters are escaped in JSON strings.
If ``check_circular`` is false, then the circular reference check
for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
@@ -185,12 +183,12 @@ def dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
"""Serialize ``obj`` to a JSON formatted ``str``.
If ``skipkeys`` is false then ``dict`` keys that are not basic types
- (``str``, ``unicode``, ``int``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be
- skipped instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
+ (``str``, ``int``, ``float``, ``bool``, ``None``) will be skipped
+ instead of raising a ``TypeError``.
- If ``ensure_ascii`` is false, then the return value will be a
- ``unicode`` instance subject to normal Python ``str`` to ``unicode``
- coercion rules instead of being escaped to an ASCII ``str``.
+ If ``ensure_ascii`` is false, then the return value can contain non-ASCII
+ characters if they appear in strings contained in ``obj``. Otherwise, all
+ such characters are escaped in JSON strings.
If ``check_circular`` is false, then the circular reference check
for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
diff --git a/Lib/json/decoder.py b/Lib/json/decoder.py
index 475b390..3e7405b 100644
--- a/Lib/json/decoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/decoder.py
@@ -263,9 +263,9 @@ class JSONDecoder(object):
+---------------+-------------------+
| array | list |
+---------------+-------------------+
- | string | unicode |
+ | string | str |
+---------------+-------------------+
- | number (int) | int, long |
+ | number (int) | int |
+---------------+-------------------+
| number (real) | float |
+---------------+-------------------+
@@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ class JSONDecoder(object):
def decode(self, s, _w=WHITESPACE.match):
- """Return the Python representation of ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode``
- instance containing a JSON document)
+ """Return the Python representation of ``s`` (a ``str`` instance
+ containing a JSON document).
"""
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
@@ -329,8 +329,8 @@ class JSONDecoder(object):
return obj
def raw_decode(self, s, idx=0):
- """Decode a JSON document from ``s`` (a ``str`` or ``unicode``
- beginning with a JSON document) and return a 2-tuple of the Python
+ """Decode a JSON document from ``s`` (a ``str`` beginning with
+ a JSON document) and return a 2-tuple of the Python
representation and the index in ``s`` where the document ended.
This can be used to decode a JSON document from a string that may
diff --git a/Lib/json/encoder.py b/Lib/json/encoder.py
index d068e72..1335985 100644
--- a/Lib/json/encoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ class JSONEncoder(object):
+-------------------+---------------+
| list, tuple | array |
+-------------------+---------------+
- | str, unicode | string |
+ | str | string |
+-------------------+---------------+
- | int, long, float | number |
+ | int, float | number |
+-------------------+---------------+
| True | true |
+-------------------+---------------+
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ class JSONEncoder(object):
"""Constructor for JSONEncoder, with sensible defaults.
If skipkeys is false, then it is a TypeError to attempt
- encoding of keys that are not str, int, long, float or None. If
+ encoding of keys that are not str, int, float or None. If
skipkeys is True, such items are simply skipped.
If ensure_ascii is true, the output is guaranteed to be str
- objects with all incoming unicode characters escaped. If
- ensure_ascii is false, the output will be unicode object.
+ objects with all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped. If
+ ensure_ascii is false, the output can contain non-ASCII characters.
If check_circular is true, then lists, dicts, and custom encoded
objects will be checked for circular references during encoding to
diff --git a/Modules/_json.c b/Modules/_json.c
index 9a3708d..2e39525 100644
--- a/Modules/_json.c
+++ b/Modules/_json.c
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ bail:
}
PyDoc_STRVAR(pydoc_scanstring,
- "scanstring(basestring, end, strict=True) -> (bytes, end)\n"
+ "scanstring(string, end, strict=True) -> (string, end)\n"
"\n"
"Scan the string s for a JSON string. End is the index of the\n"
"character in s after the quote that started the JSON string.\n"
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ py_scanstring(PyObject* self UNUSED, PyObject *args)
}
else {
PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
- "first argument must be a string or bytes, not %.80s",
+ "first argument must be a string, not %.80s",
Py_TYPE(pystr)->tp_name);
return NULL;
}
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ py_scanstring(PyObject* self UNUSED, PyObject *args)
}
PyDoc_STRVAR(pydoc_encode_basestring_ascii,
- "encode_basestring_ascii(basestring) -> bytes\n"
+ "encode_basestring_ascii(string) -> string\n"
"\n"
"Return an ASCII-only JSON representation of a Python string"
);