https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fb4a6b305a2ac4dca4a172ed741d53df38d15310
commit: fb4a6b305a2ac4dca4a172ed741d53df38d15310
branch: 3.15
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: hugovk <[email protected]>
date: 2026-09-15T16:12:19+03:00
summary:

[3.15] gh-135623: Document that json sorts the keys before coercing them to 
strings (GH-156987) (#157400)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
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 5e8c452a5ab9a1..ddd12a002f7416 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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