From: Felix Crux <felixc@felixcrux.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:39:51 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Documenting that json.load may raise a ValueError.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.6rc1~247
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Documenting that json.load may raise a ValueError.

Issue #18680: JSONDecoder should document that it raises a ValueError
  for malformed data
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diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 6e1a9c3d2ed7..caee9531dba8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -348,6 +348,8 @@ Encoders and Decoders
    those with character codes in the 0-31 range, including ``'\t'`` (tab),
    ``'\n'``, ``'\r'`` and ``'\0'``.
 
+   If the data being deserialized is not a valid JSON document, a
+   :exc:`ValueError` will be raised.
 
    .. method:: decode(s)