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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2011-10-25 04:03:51 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2011-10-25 04:03:51 (GMT)
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document __bytes__ special method (closes #13259)
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@@ -1157,6 +1157,14 @@ Basic customization
.. XXX what about subclasses of string?
+.. method:: object.__bytes__(self)
+
+ .. index:: builtin: bytes
+
+ Called by :func:`bytes` to compute a byte-string representation of an
+ object. This should return a ``bytes`` object.
+
+
.. method:: object.__format__(self, format_spec)
.. index::