From: Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy (తాటిపర్తి శ్రీనివాస్  రెడ్డి) <thatiparthysreenivas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 07:35:43 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: gh-87506: Document that json.load*() can raise UnicodeDecodeError (#127355)
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gh-87506: Document that json.load*() can raise UnicodeDecodeError (#127355)

Co-authored-by: Erlend Aasland <erlend@python.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index cf516cf3dc1d..41a09b40d7e8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -324,6 +324,10 @@ Basic Usage
    :raises JSONDecodeError:
       When the data being deserialized is not a valid JSON document.
 
+   :raises UnicodeDecodeError:
+      When the data being deserialized does not contain
+      UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 encoded data.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.1
 
       * Added the optional *object_pairs_hook* parameter.