Redo PR 785 -- Add cross reference links (GH-11319) (#11320)
(cherry picked from commit 56edf3a4b145d80684a9e4ba7411a6778d830140)
Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/binascii.rst b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
index a4efef8..89ecddc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/binascii.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@
*data* is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation. The
returned bytes object is therefore twice as long as the length of *data*.
+ Similar functionality (but returning a text string) is also conveniently
+ accessible using the :meth:`bytes.hex` method.
.. function:: a2b_hex(hexstr)
unhexlify(hexstr)
@@ -161,6 +163,9 @@
of hexadecimal digits (which can be upper or lower case), otherwise an
:exc:`Error` exception is raised.
+ Similar functionality (accepting only text string arguments, but more
+ liberal towards whitespace) is also accessible using the
+ :meth:`bytes.fromhex` class method.
.. exception:: Error