bpo-39377: json: Update doc about the encoding option. (GH-18076)
Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index cfe68c9..b923c8e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -283,19 +283,18 @@
instance containing a JSON document) to a Python object using this
:ref:`conversion table <json-to-py-table>`.
- The other arguments have the same meaning as in :func:`load`, except
- *encoding* which is ignored and deprecated since Python 3.1.
+ The other arguments have the same meaning as in :func:`load`.
If the data being deserialized is not a valid JSON document, a
:exc:`JSONDecodeError` will be raised.
- .. deprecated-removed:: 3.1 3.9
- *encoding* keyword argument.
-
.. versionchanged:: 3.6
*s* can now be of type :class:`bytes` or :class:`bytearray`. The
input encoding should be UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.9
+ The keyword argument *encoding* has been removed.
+
Encoders and Decoders
---------------------