[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

Ammar Askar added the comment: Which part is misleading, do you think the use of "encoding" could be confused with the argument encoding? There is a note right above the versionchanged block that says: `The other arguments have the same meaning as in load(), except encoding which is ignored

[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The wording looks little misleading. There is the encoding parameter in json.loads(). It is deprecated and ignored. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker

[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Thanks for the patch. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3452ff9e8f0a by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.6': Issue #29281: Fill-in a missing versionchanged entry https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3452ff9e8f0a -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

Changes by Raymond Hettinger : -- assignee: docs@python -> rhettinger nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

Ammar Askar added the comment: Attached patch adds a versionchanged block to specify that bytes and bytesarray can now be used and the types of encodings it supports (as taken from the whatsnew changes here https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e9e1bf9ec2ac#l2.7) -- keywords: +patch Added

[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, this should be documented with a versionchanged. The removal was for python3 so we didn't need a versionchanged there; it was just a difference from python2, and the python3 docs were "restarted" with (almost) no back references to python2. --

[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

Ammar Askar added the comment: To anyone more experienced with python documentation, is behavior like this actually supposed to be documented? For some more historical context, the support for bytes in the json module was removed in this issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue4136 and then

[issue29281] json.loads documentation missing "versionchanged" statement

New submission from Alexey Popravka: json.loads function was changed in Python 3.6 to accept bytes and bytearrays, however documentation is missing `versionchanged` block describing this changes. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 285545 nosy: Alexey Popravka,