From e4ae72a6d95148f146aaa0a66cd44da42d43c368 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:30:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [3.13] gh-132631: Fix "I/O operation on closed file" when
 parsing JSON Lines file (GH-132632) (#148922)

Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Schubert <brianm.schubert@gmail.com>
---
 Lib/json/tool.py                                      |  3 ++-
 Lib/test/test_json/json_lines.jsonl                   |  2 ++
 Lib/test/test_json/test_tool.py                       | 11 ++++++++++-
 .../2025-04-17-15-26-35.gh-issue-132631.IDFZfb.rst    |  2 ++
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Lib/test/test_json/json_lines.jsonl
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-04-17-15-26-35.gh-issue-132631.IDFZfb.rst

diff --git a/Lib/json/tool.py b/Lib/json/tool.py
index fdfc3372bcc..e132fc58900 100644
--- a/Lib/json/tool.py
+++ b/Lib/json/tool.py
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ def main():
             infile = open(options.infile, encoding='utf-8')
         try:
             if options.json_lines:
-                objs = (json.loads(line) for line in infile)
+                lines = infile.readlines()
+                objs = (json.loads(line) for line in lines)
             else:
                 objs = (json.load(infile),)
         finally:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_json/json_lines.jsonl b/Lib/test/test_json/json_lines.jsonl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d2f29211195
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/test_json/json_lines.jsonl
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+{"ingredients":["frog", "water", "chocolate", "glucose"]}
+{"ingredients":["chocolate","steel bolts"]}
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_json/test_tool.py b/Lib/test/test_json/test_tool.py
index 2b63810d539..231fdfd7626 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_json/test_tool.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_json/test_tool.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import errno
+import pathlib
 import os
 import sys
 import textwrap
@@ -6,7 +7,7 @@ import unittest
 import subprocess
 
 from test import support
-from test.support import os_helper
+from test.support import force_not_colorized, os_helper
 from test.support.script_helper import assert_python_ok
 
 
@@ -147,6 +148,14 @@ class TestTool(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(process.stdout, self.jsonlines_expect)
         self.assertEqual(process.stderr, '')
 
+    @force_not_colorized
+    def test_jsonlines_from_file(self):
+        jsonl = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / 'json_lines.jsonl'
+        args = sys.executable, '-m', 'json.tool', '--json-lines', jsonl
+        process = subprocess.run(args, capture_output=True, text=True, check=True)
+        self.assertEqual(process.stdout, self.jsonlines_expect)
+        self.assertEqual(process.stderr, '')
+
     def test_help_flag(self):
         rc, out, err = assert_python_ok('-m', 'json.tool', '-h')
         self.assertEqual(rc, 0)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-04-17-15-26-35.gh-issue-132631.IDFZfb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-04-17-15-26-35.gh-issue-132631.IDFZfb.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9cc1d5a389c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-04-17-15-26-35.gh-issue-132631.IDFZfb.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix "I/O operation on closed file" when parsing JSON Lines file with
+:mod:`JSON CLI <json.tool>`.