[issue40090] The referenced RFC for the json module should be corrected to rfc8259

Ama Aje My Fren added the comment: I am not the expert on this but I did a swift check of the two documents before doing the documentation PR . >From my reading of the two, RFC8259 seems that:

[issue40090] The referenced RFC for the json module should be corrected to rfc8259

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The header for 8259 says "Obsoletes: 7159" (December 2017) and the header for 7159 agrees: "Obsoleted by: 8259". But... to the extent that there is any difference, which document better describes the behavior of our json module? Does it need to be updated

[issue40090] The referenced RFC for the json module should be corrected to rfc8259

Change by Ama Aje My Fren : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +18558 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19197 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40090] The referenced RFC for the json module should be corrected to rfc8259

New submission from Ama Aje My Fren : Currently the Documentation of the json library module refers to :rfc:`7159` . That RFC has however been obsoleted by :rfc:`8259`. The Documentation for :mod:`json` should be changed to indicate this. -- assignee: docs@python components: