bytes() can't be used to get a representation of an object.
diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index 528febd..ca3ad3e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
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
- representation of the argument(s) to the instance are returned, or the empty
- string when there were no arguments.
+ :func:`str` is called on an instance of this class, the representation of
+ the argument(s) to the instance are returned, or the empty string when
+ there were no arguments.
.. attribute:: args