ENH: change pd.read_json kwarg to rtype or return_type?

[ammarasmro]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Curious to know why pd.read_json has kwarg typ instead of rtype or return_type? Sorry if the answer is too simple but I couldn't find something that could explain it and typ might not be trivial to guess.

Describe the solution you'd like

few ways I guess (assuming there isn't a component that would break from this change)

• Change variable to rtype
• Change variable to return_type
• Update documentation to reflect reason for choice of variable name

API breaking implications

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Additional context

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pd.read_json(typ='series')

[ammarasmro]

Happy to help with it if people agree it's an issue

[mroeschke]

Maybe the intention was for this kwarg to be type, but that is a built-in function in Python.

While return_type would be a better name, changing it would require a deprecation cycle since it's an API change which may not purely be worth the API churn.

[mroeschke]

Thanks for the report, but it appears there's no appetite to change this keyword so closing