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authorTim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>2013-11-03 18:27:07 (GMT)
committerTim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>2013-11-03 18:27:07 (GMT)
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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/binascii.rst2
-rw-r--r--Modules/binascii.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/binascii.rst b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
index 02ec5d8..c92a8e1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/binascii.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ The :mod:`binascii` module defines the following functions:
Return the hexadecimal representation of the binary *data*. Every byte of
*data* is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation. The
- resulting string is therefore twice as long as the length of *data*.
+ returned bytes object is therefore twice as long as the length of *data*.
.. function:: a2b_hex(hexstr)
diff --git a/Modules/binascii.c b/Modules/binascii.c
index 386c2de..0f49701 100644
--- a/Modules/binascii.c
+++ b/Modules/binascii.c
@@ -1122,7 +1122,8 @@ binascii_hexlify(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
PyDoc_STRVAR(doc_hexlify,
"b2a_hex(data) -> s; Hexadecimal representation of binary data.\n\
\n\
-This function is also available as \"hexlify()\".");
+The return value is a bytes object. This function is also\n\
+available as \"hexlify()\".");
static int