https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/64740410909891331eb4e4cbdb14837ff4f8ec64
commit: 64740410909891331eb4e4cbdb14837ff4f8ec64
branch: main
author: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]>
date: 2026-09-13T11:04:50+03:00
summary:

gh-135623: Document that json sorts the keys before coercing them to strings 
(GH-156987)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/json.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 5e8c452a5ab9a1f..ddd12a002f74163 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -261,6 +261,8 @@ Basic Usage
       into JSON and then back into a dictionary, the dictionary may not equal
       the original one. That is, ``loads(dumps(x)) != x`` if x has non-string
       keys.
+      *sort_keys* sorts the keys before they are coerced to strings,
+      so numeric keys are sorted by value, not by their string representation.
 
 .. function:: load(fp, *, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, \
                    parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, \

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