From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 21:35:57 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: indicate that read/write work with bytes (closes #18009)
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a1~580^2~29
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indicate that read/write work with bytes (closes #18009)
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diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index a351caeddc..0cb18365ad 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -7838,7 +7838,7 @@ posix_lseek(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(posix_read__doc__,
-"read(fd, buffersize) -> string\n\n\
+"read(fd, buffersize) -> bytes\n\n\
 Read a file descriptor.");
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -8008,8 +8008,8 @@ posix_pread(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 #endif
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(posix_write__doc__,
-"write(fd, string) -> byteswritten\n\n\
-Write a string to a file descriptor.");
+"write(fd, data) -> byteswritten\n\n\
+Write bytes to a file descriptor.");
 
 static PyObject *
 posix_write(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)