commit 35893b799496c8a9d118e64b49f10ac9bf369760
author R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Sun Mar 17 22:06:18 2013 -0400
committer R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Sun Mar 17 22:06:18 2013 -0400
tree ba99bd751ea4e1d08d524b2a9f316b28d37075c6
parent 271e56e88740cdcc2a6bddbd0894aec25f984f4e

#16057: Clarify why the base method default is called in custom encoders.

Original patch by Kushal Das.

Lib/json/encoder.py

diff --git a/Lib/json/encoder.py b/Lib/json/encoder.py
index 4d1aaa8..f5eeed7 100644
--- a/Lib/json/encoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
                     pass
                 else:
                     return list(iterable)
+                # Let the base class default method raise the TypeError
                 return JSONEncoder.default(self, o)
 
         """