Fix empty strings to empty bytes objects.
diff --git a/Doc/library/asynchat.rst b/Doc/library/asynchat.rst
index 55c61d7..adbd3be 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asynchat.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asynchat.rst
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
have only one method, :meth:`more`, which should return data to be
transmitted on the channel.
The producer indicates exhaustion (*i.e.* that it contains no more data) by
- having its :meth:`more` method return the empty string. At this point the
- :class:`async_chat` object removes the producer from the fifo and starts
+ having its :meth:`more` method return the empty bytes object. At this point
+ the :class:`async_chat` object removes the producer from the fifo and starts
using the next producer, if any. When the producer fifo is empty the
:meth:`handle_write` method does nothing. You use the channel object's
:meth:`set_terminator` method to describe how to recognize the end of, or
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
def found_terminator(self):
if self.reading_headers:
self.reading_headers = False
- self.parse_headers("".join(self.ibuffer))
+ self.parse_headers(b"".join(self.ibuffer))
self.ibuffer = []
if self.op.upper() == b"POST":
clen = self.headers.getheader("content-length")
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncore.rst b/Doc/library/asyncore.rst
index 8f494d0..1521e72 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncore.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncore.rst
@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@
.. method:: recv(buffer_size)
Read at most *buffer_size* bytes from the socket's remote end-point. An
- empty string implies that the channel has been closed from the other end.
+ empty bytes object implies that the channel has been closed from the
+ other end.
.. method:: listen(backlog)
diff --git a/Doc/library/chunk.rst b/Doc/library/chunk.rst
index ae0a221..50b6979 100644
--- a/Doc/library/chunk.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/chunk.rst
@@ -113,15 +113,15 @@
Read at most *size* bytes from the chunk (less if the read hits the end of
the chunk before obtaining *size* bytes). If the *size* argument is
- negative or omitted, read all data until the end of the chunk. The bytes
- are returned as a string object. An empty string is returned when the end
- of the chunk is encountered immediately.
+ negative or omitted, read all data until the end of the chunk. An empty
+ bytes object is returned when the end of the chunk is encountered
+ immediately.
.. method:: skip()
Skip to the end of the chunk. All further calls to :meth:`read` for the
- chunk will return ``''``. If you are not interested in the contents of
+ chunk will return ``b''``. If you are not interested in the contents of
the chunk, this method should be called so that the file points to the
start of the next chunk.
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index cf65219..3f2dcbb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@
is either ``"xml"``, ``"html"`` or ``"text"`` (default is ``"xml"``).
Returns a list of (optionally) encoded strings containing the XML data.
It does not guarantee any specific sequence, except that
- ``"".join(tostringlist(element)) == tostring(element)``.
+ ``b"".join(tostringlist(element)) == tostring(element)``.
.. versionadded:: 3.2
diff --git a/Doc/library/zlib.rst b/Doc/library/zlib.rst
index d9a29a8..b178fe1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zlib.rst
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
.. attribute:: Decompress.unused_data
A bytes object which contains any bytes past the end of the compressed data. That is,
- this remains ``""`` until the last byte that contains compression data is
+ this remains ``b""`` until the last byte that contains compression data is
available. If the whole bytestring turned out to contain compressed data, this is
``b""``, an empty bytes object.