httpclient: clarify docs of HTTPResponse.body

Closes #1775

diff --git a/tornado/httpclient.py b/tornado/httpclient.py
index c62b6207cf6379c9423d83b705b92a73d675e504..762919ee8779c9b744cae7ec0b00b86cfffb92d9 100644 (file)
--- a/tornado/httpclient.py
+++ b/tornado/httpclient.py
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ class HTTPResponse(object):
 
     * buffer: ``cStringIO`` object for response body
 
-    * body: response body as string (created on demand from ``self.buffer``)
+    * body: response body as bytes (created on demand from ``self.buffer``)
 
     * error: Exception object, if any