closes bpo-34525: Fix smtplib's authobject() documentation (GH-8965)
(cherry picked from commit 78deb7f33227972987722bc3fed5bcb45fae869e)
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Rittau <srittau@rittau.org>
diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py
index 048c6bf..5e1bc0b 100755
--- a/Lib/smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/smtplib.py
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@
It will be called to process the server's challenge response; the
challenge argument it is passed will be a bytes. It should return
- bytes data that will be base64 encoded and sent to the server.
+ an ASCII string that will be base64 encoded and sent to the server.
Keyword arguments:
- initial_response_ok: Allow sending the RFC 4954 initial-response