[Python-checkins] Redo PR 785 -- Add cross reference links (GH-11319) (#11320)
Raymond Hettinger
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Tue Dec 25 21:00:23 EST 2018
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/793ebdfc55685d7e4a23a549ca56b61715638f82
commit: 793ebdfc55685d7e4a23a549ca56b61715638f82
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2018-12-25T18:00:20-08:00
summary:
Redo PR 785 -- Add cross reference links (GH-11319) (#11320)
(cherry picked from commit 56edf3a4b145d80684a9e4ba7411a6778d830140)
Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.noreply.github.com>
files:
M Doc/library/binascii.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/binascii.rst b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
index a4efef846572..89ecddc7780f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/binascii.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ The :mod:`binascii` module defines the following functions:
*data* is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation. The
returned bytes object is therefore twice as long as the length of *data*.
+ Similar functionality (but returning a text string) is also conveniently
+ accessible using the :meth:`bytes.hex` method.
.. function:: a2b_hex(hexstr)
unhexlify(hexstr)
@@ -161,6 +163,9 @@ The :mod:`binascii` module defines the following functions:
of hexadecimal digits (which can be upper or lower case), otherwise an
:exc:`Error` exception is raised.
+ Similar functionality (accepting only text string arguments, but more
+ liberal towards whitespace) is also accessible using the
+ :meth:`bytes.fromhex` class method.
.. exception:: Error
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