From: yihong <zouzou0208@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:44:25 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: gh-138019: improve help message for `json.tool` (#138037)
X-Git-Tag: v3.15.0a1~618
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=531fc3a7a3998d714a9382f0bc143c05d69e9174;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

gh-138019: improve help message for `json.tool` (#138037)
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diff --git a/Lib/json/tool.py b/Lib/json/tool.py
index 1967817add8a..050c2fe2161e 100644
--- a/Lib/json/tool.py
+++ b/Lib/json/tool.py
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ def main():
                    'to validate and pretty-print JSON objects.')
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description, color=True)
     parser.add_argument('infile', nargs='?',
-                        help='a JSON file to be validated or pretty-printed',
+                        help='a JSON file to be validated or pretty-printed; '
+                             'defaults to stdin',
                         default='-')
     parser.add_argument('outfile', nargs='?',
                         help='write the output of infile to outfile',