From 654f003a13c1340f5297eb5edc82720b9fe524aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Crux <felixc@felixcrux.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:39:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Documenting that json.load may raise a ValueError.

Issue #18680: JSONDecoder should document that it raises a ValueError
  for malformed data
---
 Doc/library/json.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 3b832f684c6..5d97ee88fc4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ Encoders and Decoders
    those with character codes in the 0-31 range, including ``'\t'`` (tab),
    ``'\n'``, ``'\r'`` and ``'\0'``.
 
+   If the data being deserialized is not a valid JSON document, a
+   :exc:`ValueError` will be raised.
 
    .. method:: decode(s)