[Python-checkins] bpo-46001: Change OverflowError to RecursionError in JSON library docstrings (GH-29943)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e360832d7ed2697d715e93cb9f859a52264d60b
commit: 2e360832d7ed2697d715e93cb9f859a52264d60b
branch: 3.9
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2021-12-07T02:25:02-08:00
summary:

bpo-46001: Change OverflowError to RecursionError in JSON library docstrings (GH-29943)

(cherry picked from commit 8db06528cacc94e67eb1fb2e4c2acc061a515671)

Co-authored-by: James Gerity <snoopjedi at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/json.rst
M Lib/json/__init__.py
M Lib/json/encoder.py

diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 6fa89f578a2cf..1810e04cc8349 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Basic Usage
 
    If *check_circular* is false (default: ``True``), then the circular
    reference check for container types will be skipped and a circular reference
-   will result in an :exc:`OverflowError` (or worse).
+   will result in an :exc:`RecursionError` (or worse).
 
    If *allow_nan* is false (default: ``True``), then it will be a
    :exc:`ValueError` to serialize out of range :class:`float` values (``nan``,
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ Encoders and Decoders
 
    If *check_circular* is true (the default), then lists, dicts, and custom
    encoded objects will be checked for circular references during encoding to
-   prevent an infinite recursion (which would cause an :exc:`OverflowError`).
+   prevent an infinite recursion (which would cause an :exc:`RecursionError`).
    Otherwise, no such check takes place.
 
    If *allow_nan* is true (the default), then ``NaN``, ``Infinity``, and
diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py
index 2c52bdeba6754..e4c21daaf3e47 100644
--- a/Lib/json/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ def dump(obj, fp, *, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
 
     If ``check_circular`` is false, then the circular reference check
     for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
-    result in an ``OverflowError`` (or worse).
+    result in an ``RecursionError`` (or worse).
 
     If ``allow_nan`` is false, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
     serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``)
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ def dumps(obj, *, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True, check_circular=True,
 
     If ``check_circular`` is false, then the circular reference check
     for container types will be skipped and a circular reference will
-    result in an ``OverflowError`` (or worse).
+    result in an ``RecursionError`` (or worse).
 
     If ``allow_nan`` is false, then it will be a ``ValueError`` to
     serialize out of range ``float`` values (``nan``, ``inf``, ``-inf``) in
diff --git a/Lib/json/encoder.py b/Lib/json/encoder.py
index c8c78b9c23765..21bff2c1a1fca 100644
--- a/Lib/json/encoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def __init__(self, *, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True,
 
         If check_circular is true, then lists, dicts, and custom encoded
         objects will be checked for circular references during encoding to
-        prevent an infinite recursion (which would cause an OverflowError).
+        prevent an infinite recursion (which would cause an RecursionError).
         Otherwise, no such check takes place.
 
         If allow_nan is true, then NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity will be