From: Xiang Zhang Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 03:03:36 +0000 (+0800) Subject: ftplib.FTP.retrbinary callback gets a bytes, not a str (GH-652) (GH-657) X-Git-Tag: v3.6.2rc1~318 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=388e2568fc919a177df2d2949b575c553aea84ac;p=python ftplib.FTP.retrbinary callback gets a bytes, not a str (GH-652) (GH-657) --- diff --git a/Doc/library/ftplib.rst b/Doc/library/ftplib.rst index 1153ce77dd..7291dfe848 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ftplib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ftplib.rst @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ followed by ``lines`` for the text version or ``binary`` for the binary version. Retrieve a file in binary transfer mode. *cmd* should be an appropriate ``RETR`` command: ``'RETR filename'``. The *callback* function is called for - each block of data received, with a single string argument giving the data + each block of data received, with a single bytes argument giving the data block. The optional *blocksize* argument specifies the maximum chunk size to read on the low-level socket object created to do the actual transfer (which will also be the largest size of the data blocks passed to *callback*). A