diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 100fcec..3909420 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.
+
 - Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
 
 - Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
diff --git a/Modules/arraymodule.c b/Modules/arraymodule.c
index fe6106c..31c4f39 100644
--- a/Modules/arraymodule.c
+++ b/Modules/arraymodule.c
@@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@
 \n\
 Extends this array with data from the unicode string ustr.\n\
 The array must be a unicode type array; otherwise a ValueError\n\
-is raised.  Use array.frombytes(ustr.decode(...)) to\n\
+is raised.  Use array.frombytes(ustr.encode(...)) to\n\
 append Unicode data to an array of some other type.");
 
 
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@
 \n\
 Convert the array to a unicode string.  The array must be\n\
 a unicode type array; otherwise a ValueError is raised.  Use\n\
-array.tostring().decode() to obtain a unicode string from\n\
+array.tobytes().decode() to obtain a unicode string from\n\
 an array of some other type.");
 
 
@@ -2557,7 +2557,7 @@
 extend() -- extend array by appending multiple elements from an iterable\n\
 fromfile() -- read items from a file object\n\
 fromlist() -- append items from the list\n\
-fromstring() -- append items from the string\n\
+frombytes() -- append items from the string\n\
 index() -- return index of first occurrence of an object\n\
 insert() -- insert a new item into the array at a provided position\n\
 pop() -- remove and return item (default last)\n\
@@ -2565,7 +2565,7 @@
 reverse() -- reverse the order of the items in the array\n\
 tofile() -- write all items to a file object\n\
 tolist() -- return the array converted to an ordinary list\n\
-tostring() -- return the array converted to a string\n\
+tobytes() -- return the array converted to a string\n\
 \n\
 Attributes:\n\
 \n\