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diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst index 0b42012..0db86be 100644 --- a/Doc/library/json.rst +++ b/Doc/library/json.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ .. moduleauthor:: Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> .. sectionauthor:: Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> -JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) <http://json.org> is a subset of JavaScript +`JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) <http://json.org>`_ is a subset of JavaScript syntax (ECMA-262 3rd edition) used as a lightweight data interchange format. :mod:`json` exposes an API familiar to users of the standard library @@ -134,10 +134,12 @@ Basic Usage ``inf``, ``-inf``) in strict compliance of the JSON specification, instead of using the JavaScript equivalents (``NaN``, ``Infinity``, ``-Infinity``). - If *indent* is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and object - members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level of 0, - or negative, will only insert newlines. ``None`` (the default) selects the - most compact representation. + If *indent* is a non-negative integer or string, then JSON array elements and + object members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level + of 0, negative, or ``""`` will only insert newlines. ``None`` (the default) + selects the most compact representation. Using a positive integer indent + indents that many spaces per level. If *indent* is a string (such at '\t'), + that string is used to indent each level. If *separators* is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple, then it will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators. ``(',', |