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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2011-04-15 07:37:00 +0300
committerEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2011-04-15 07:37:00 +0300
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#4783: document that is not possible to use json.dump twice on the same stream.
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@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ Basic Usage
Serialize *obj* to a JSON formatted :class:`str`. The arguments have the
same meaning as in :func:`dump`.
+ .. note::
+
+ Unlike :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`marshal`, JSON is not a framed protocol so
+ trying to serialize more objects with repeated calls to :func:`dump` and
+ the same *fp* will result in an invalid JSON file.
.. function:: load(fp, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, **kw)