commit dd246171e483afa21f12e2a961a461e0d5119ea3
author R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Sun Mar 17 21:52:35 2013 -0400
committer R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Sun Mar 17 21:52:35 2013 -0400
tree c572c72b8406b9c3c5719286e7b4ebb773a8f47d
parent f3460414d56500b8ff551515ac7fed78b49e33c9

#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 e1ed21f..1d8b20c 100644
--- a/Lib/json/encoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@
                     pass
                 else:
                     return list(iterable)
+                # Let the base class default method raise the TypeError
                 return JSONEncoder.default(self, o)
 
         """