[issue4785] json.JSONDecoder() strict argument undocumented and potentially confusing

[Tal Einat]

Tal Einat <taleinat at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

This goes down into _json.scanstring. Looking at the C code for scanstring_unicode, the strict parameter allow control characters inside strings: "if strict is zero then literal control characters are allowed". From the code itself (current py3k head, r81032), it seems this means any character <= 0x1f. See scanstring_unicode in http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/py3k/Modules/_json.c?revision=81032&view=markup for details.

Documentation should be updated accordingly.

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nosy: +taleinat

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