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

(cherry picked from commit 8db0652)

Co-authored-by: James Gerity <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

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

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

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