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  r85530 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 17:32:05 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Refrain from using inline suites.
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  r85532 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7771: reference to documentation of dictview methods and operations.
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  r85533 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:07:41 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9683: remove broken dead code dealing with nested arguments removed from Py3k, and update the docs and docstrings accordingly.
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  r85534 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:19:43 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9801: document how list and dict proxies created by Managers behave w.r.t. mutable items.
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  r85538 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:35:46 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7303: add documentation for useful pkgutil functions and classes.
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  r85539 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:14 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix issue references.
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  r85540 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:37 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #6798: fix wrong docs for the arguments to several trace events.
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  r85541 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:53:24 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #4968: updates to inspect.is* function docs.
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  r85542 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:01:15 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7790: move table of struct_time members to the actual description of struct_time.
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  r85543 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #4785: document strict argument of JSONDecoder, plus add object_pairs_hook in the docstrings.
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  r85546 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:58:45 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5762: fix handling of empty namespace in minidom, which would result in AttributeError on toxml().
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  r85547 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 20:00:35 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #6098: Refrain from claiming DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
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  r85548 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 21:46:19 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10072: assume a bit less knowledge of the FTP protocol in the ftplib docs.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 3b203a2..a26001d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 
    To use a custom :class:`JSONEncoder` subclass (e.g. one that overrides the
    :meth:`default` method to serialize additional types), specify it with the
-   *cls* kwarg.
+   *cls* kwarg; otherwise :class:`JSONEncoder` is used.
 
 
 .. function:: dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True, allow_nan=True, cls=None, indent=None, separators=None, default=None, **kw)
@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@
    are encountered.
 
    To use a custom :class:`JSONDecoder` subclass, specify it with the ``cls``
-   kwarg.  Additional keyword arguments will be passed to the constructor of the
-   class.
+   kwarg; otherwise :class:`JSONDecoder` is used.  Additional keyword arguments
+   will be passed to the constructor of the class.
 
 
 .. function:: loads(s, encoding=None, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw)
@@ -275,6 +275,11 @@
    ``'false'``.  This can be used to raise an exception if invalid JSON numbers
    are encountered.
 
+   If *strict* is ``False`` (``True`` is the default), then control characters
+   will be allowed inside strings.  Control characters in this context are
+   those with character codes in the 0-31 range, including ``'\t'`` (tab),
+   ``'\n'``, ``'\r'`` and ``'\0'``.
+
 
    .. method:: decode(s)