Clean up imports and docstrings for consistency.

Author: itsluketwist

packages/python/plotly/plotly/basedatatypes.py

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 from copy import deepcopy, copy
 import itertools
 from functools import reduce
-import json
 
 from _plotly_utils.utils import (
     _natural_sort_strings,
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@
     display_string_positions,
     chomp_empty_strings,
     find_closest_string,
-    PlotlyJSONEncoder,
 )
 from _plotly_utils.exceptions import PlotlyKeyError
 from .optional_imports import get_module
@@ -3318,7 +3316,7 @@ def to_dict(self):
 
     def to_plotly_json(self):
         """
-        Convert figure to a JSON representation as a Python dict.
+        Convert figure to a JSON representation as a Python dict
 
         Note: May include some JSON-invalid data types, use the `PlotlyJSONEncoder` util when encoding.
 
@@ -5611,12 +5609,12 @@ def to_plotly_json(self):
 
     def to_json(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """
-        Convert to a JSON string representation.
+        Convert object to a JSON string representation
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         validate: bool (default True)
-            True if the figure should be validated before being converted to
+            True if the object should be validated before being converted to
             JSON, False otherwise.
 
         pretty: bool (default False)
@@ -5636,7 +5634,7 @@ def to_json(self, *args, **kwargs):
         Returns
         -------
         str
-            Representation of figure as a JSON string
+            Representation of object as a JSON string
         """
         import plotly.io as pio