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authorSandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com>2012-05-13 09:01:36 (GMT)
committerSandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com>2012-05-13 09:01:36 (GMT)
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@@ -823,7 +823,8 @@ string literals. In addition to the functionality described here, there are
also string-specific methods described in the :ref:`string-methods` section.
Bytes and bytearray objects contain single bytes -- the former is immutable
-while the latter is a mutable sequence. Bytes objects can be constructed the
+while the latter is a mutable sequence.
+Bytes objects can be constructed by using the
constructor, :func:`bytes`, and from literals; use a ``b`` prefix with normal
string syntax: ``b'xyzzy'``. To construct byte arrays, use the
:func:`bytearray` function.