From 5fdb64b5a0a8567a232c2182f0c0439872c987e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:21:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] #19411: Clarify that b2a_hex/hexlify returns a bytes object. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok. --- Doc/library/binascii.rst | 2 +- Modules/binascii.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/binascii.rst b/Doc/library/binascii.rst index 02ec5d854a9..c92a8e160a9 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 340ec9c4260..a84badc7c93 100644 --- a/Modules/binascii.c +++ b/Modules/binascii.c @@ -1129,7 +1129,8 @@ 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