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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2014-02-06 19:10:41 (GMT)
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@@ -113,15 +113,15 @@ instance will fail with a :exc:`EOFError` exception.
Read at most *size* bytes from the chunk (less if the read hits the end of
the chunk before obtaining *size* bytes). If the *size* argument is
- negative or omitted, read all data until the end of the chunk. The bytes
- are returned as a string object. An empty string is returned when the end
- of the chunk is encountered immediately.
+ negative or omitted, read all data until the end of the chunk. An empty
+ bytes object is returned when the end of the chunk is encountered
+ immediately.
.. method:: skip()
Skip to the end of the chunk. All further calls to :meth:`read` for the
- chunk will return ``''``. If you are not interested in the contents of
+ chunk will return ``b''``. If you are not interested in the contents of
the chunk, this method should be called so that the file points to the
start of the next chunk.