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@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ Basic Usage
:meth:`default` method to serialize additional types), specify it with the
*cls* kwarg; otherwise :class:`JSONEncoder` is used.
+ .. 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:: dumps(obj[, skipkeys[, ensure_ascii[, check_circular[, allow_nan[, cls[, indent[, separators[, encoding[, default[, **kw]]]]]]]]]])