diff -duP a/json.rst b/json.rst
--- a/json.rst	2012-03-17 00:24:27.541132697 -0700
+++ b/json.rst	2012-03-17 00:27:29.491132691 -0700
@@ -170,6 +170,14 @@
    :class:`unicode` instance.  The other arguments have the same meaning as in
    :func:`dump`.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      Keys in key/value pairs of JSON are always of the type :class:`str`. When
+      a dictionary is converted into JSON, all the keys of the dictionary are
+      coerced to strings. As a result of this, if a dictionary is convered
+      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.
 
 .. function:: load(fp[, encoding[, cls[, object_hook[, parse_float[, parse_int[, parse_constant[, object_pairs_hook[, **kw]]]]]]]])