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Expand Up @@ -261,6 +261,8 @@ Basic Usage
into JSON and then back into a dictionary, the dictionary may not equal
the original one. That is, ``loads(dumps(x)) != x`` if x has non-string
keys.
*sort_keys* sorts the keys before they are coerced to strings,
so numeric keys are sorted by value, not by their string representation.

.. function:: load(fp, *, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, \
parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, \
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