From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:03:51 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: document __bytes__ special method (closes #13259)
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document __bytes__ special method (closes #13259)
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 129f987a4499..d01b1f2db250 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1157,6 +1157,14 @@ Basic customization
    .. XXX what about subclasses of string?
 
 
+.. method:: object.__bytes__(self)
+
+   .. index:: builtin: bytes
+
+   Called by :func:`bytes` to compute a byte-string representation of an
+   object. This should return a ``bytes`` object.
+
+
 .. method:: object.__format__(self, format_spec)
 
    .. index::