Update docs for buffer -> bytearray rename.
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index d554a08..752bd50 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -118,18 +118,18 @@
.. index:: pair: Boolean; type
-.. function:: buffer([arg[, encoding[, errors]]])
+.. function:: bytearray([arg[, encoding[, errors]]])
- Return a new array of bytes. The :class:`buffer` type is an immutable sequence
- of integers in the range 0 <= x < 256. It has most of the usual methods of
- mutable sequences, described in :ref:`typesseq-mutable`, as well as most methods
- that the :class:`str` type has, see :ref:`bytes-methods`.
+ Return a new array of bytes. The :class:`bytearray` type is an immutable
+ sequence of integers in the range 0 <= x < 256. It has most of the usual
+ methods of mutable sequences, described in :ref:`typesseq-mutable`, as well
+ as most methods that the :class:`str` type has, see :ref:`bytes-methods`.
The optional *arg* parameter can be used to initialize the array in a few
different ways:
* If it is a *string*, you must also give the *encoding* (and optionally,
- *errors*) parameters; :func:`buffer` then converts the Unicode string to
+ *errors*) parameters; :func:`bytearray` then converts the Unicode string to
bytes using :meth:`str.encode`.
* If it is an *integer*, the array will have that size and will be
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@
Return a new "bytes" object, which is an immutable sequence of integers in
the range ``0 <= x < 256``. :class:`bytes` is an immutable version of
- :class:`buffer` -- it has the same non-mutating methods and the same indexing
- and slicing behavior.
+ :class:`bytearray` -- it has the same non-mutating methods and the same
+ indexing and slicing behavior.
Accordingly, constructor arguments are interpreted as for :func:`buffer`.