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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2012-11-29 00:35:29 +0200
committerEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2012-11-29 00:35:29 +0200
commit25f2e6eb5d090d3a7569a6ee783e06189c543c7f (patch)
tree1d49d88063f33750f1c96992983157e7d223bb34 /Lib/json/encoder.py
parentdb0ad0b39d1854ec73f55d48cba9928657402935 (diff)
downloadcpython-25f2e6eb5d090d3a7569a6ee783e06189c543c7f.tar.gz
#16333: document a way to get rid of trailing whitespace when indent is used.
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diff --git a/Lib/json/encoder.py b/Lib/json/encoder.py
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--- a/Lib/json/encoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py
@@ -125,7 +125,10 @@ class JSONEncoder(object):
If indent is a non-negative integer, then JSON array
elements and object members will be pretty-printed with that
indent level. An indent level of 0 will only insert newlines.
- None is the most compact representation.
+ None is the most compact representation. Since the default
+ item separator is ', ', the output might include trailing
+ whitespace when indent is specified. You can use
+ separators=(',', ': ') to avoid this.
If specified, separators should be a (item_separator, key_separator)
tuple. The default is (', ', ': '). To get the most compact JSON