In 3.x, bytearray is akin to bytes, not str.
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
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+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
Return a new array of bytes. The :class:`bytearray` type is a mutable
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`.
+ as most methods that the :class:`bytes` type has, see :ref:`bytes-methods`.
The optional *source* parameter can be used to initialize the array in a few
different ways: