#10019: Fix regression relative to 2.6: add newlines if indent=0

Patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, updated by Sando Tosi.

Doc/library/json.rst

@@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ Basic Usage
    using the JavaScript equivalents (``NaN``, ``Infinity``, ``-Infinity``).
 
    If *indent* is a non-negative integer, then JSON array elements and object
-   members will be pretty-printed with that indent level.  An indent level of 0
-   will only insert newlines.  ``None`` (the default) selects the most compact
-   representation.
+   members will be pretty-printed with that indent level.  An indent level of 0,
+   or negative, will only insert newlines.  ``None`` (the default) selects the
+   most compact representation.
 
    If *separators* is an ``(item_separator, dict_separator)`` tuple, then it
    will be used instead of the default ``(', ', ': ')`` separators.  ``(',',

Lib/json/encoder.py

@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ class JSONEncoder(object):
 
 
         if (_one_shot and c_make_encoder is not None
-                and not self.indent):
+                and self.indent is None):
             _iterencode = c_make_encoder(
                 markers, self.default, _encoder, self.indent,
                 self.key_separator, self.item_separator, self.sort_keys,

Lib/json/tests/test_indent.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from unittest import TestCase
 
 import json
 import textwrap
+from io import StringIO
 
 class TestIndent(TestCase):
     def test_indent(self):
@@ -39,3 +40,18 @@ class TestIndent(TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(h1, h)
         self.assertEqual(h2, h)
         self.assertEqual(d2, expect)
+
+    def test_indent0(self):
+        h = {3: 1}
+        def check(indent, expected):
+            d1 = json.dumps(h, indent=indent)
+            self.assertEqual(d1, expected)
+
+            sio = StringIO()
+            json.dump(h, sio, indent=indent)
+            self.assertEqual(sio.getvalue(), expected)
+
+        # indent=0 should emit newlines
+        check(0, '{\n"3": 1\n}')
+        # indent=None is more compact
+        check(None, '{"3": 1}')

Misc/NEWS

@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
+  adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
+
 - Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
   from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.