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gh-132021: Add bool type to the list of allowed JSON key types #132048

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@srinivasreddy srinivasreddy commented Apr 3, 2025

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Hi! This updates the docstring for JSONEncoder.__init__ (i.e. what's shown by help(json.JSONEncoder)). Technically gh-132021 is about this passage from the docs, not the docstring, but it doesn't hurt to clarify the docstring as well. Can you make a similar change to the docs passage in Doc/library/json.rst?

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def __init__(self, *, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True,
"""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, float or None. If
encoding of keys that are not bool, str, int, float or None. If
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nitpick: json.dumps uses the order "str, int, float, bool, None" in its docstring and docs, so we might as well use the same order here for consistency

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Looks good to me.

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@picnixz picnixz changed the title gh-132021: Add bool type to the list of types that were allowed in keys of encode(...) method gh-132021: Add bool type to the list of allowed JSON key types Apr 7, 2025
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