bytes() can't be used to get a representation of an object.

3b1acf11 · Amaury Forgeot d'Arc · a233df88 · 3b1acf11
Commit 3b1acf11 authored Nov 22, 2011 by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ The following exceptions are used mostly as base classes for other exceptions.
   The base class for all built-in exceptions.  It is not meant to be directly
   inherited by user-defined classes (for that, use :exc:`Exception`).  If
-   :func:`bytes` or :func:`str` is called on an instance of this class, the
+   :func:`str` is called on an instance of this class, the representation of
-   representation of the argument(s) to the instance are returned, or the empty
+   the argument(s) to the instance are returned, or the empty string when
-   string when there were no arguments.
+   there were no arguments.
   .. attribute:: args