From 1fafc1a11f7d4799f252a40e608b0fd4d4fedb68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:03:51 -0400
Subject: document __bytes__ special method (closes #13259)

---
 Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 129f987..d01b1f2 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -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::
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