From: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 21:56:01 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-35765: Clarify references to "object x" in the JSON tutorial (GH-22411)
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bpo-35765: Clarify references to "object x" in the JSON tutorial (GH-22411)
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index 4e27cff83ce5..7f83c4d4612e 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -480,7 +480,8 @@ If you have an object ``x``, you can view its JSON string representation with a
 simple line of code::
 
    >>> import json
-   >>> json.dumps([1, 'simple', 'list'])
+   >>> x = [1, 'simple', 'list']
+   >>> json.dumps(x)
    '[1, "simple", "list"]'
 
 Another variant of the :func:`~json.dumps` function, called :func:`~json.dump`,