Merge
diff --git a/Doc/library/binascii.rst b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
index 02ec5d8..c92a8e1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/binascii.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/binascii.rst
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
Return the hexadecimal representation of the binary *data*. Every byte of
*data* is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation. The
- resulting string is therefore twice as long as the length of *data*.
+ returned bytes object is therefore twice as long as the length of *data*.
.. function:: a2b_hex(hexstr)
diff --git a/Modules/binascii.c b/Modules/binascii.c
index 386c2de..0f49701 100644
--- a/Modules/binascii.c
+++ b/Modules/binascii.c
@@ -1122,7 +1122,8 @@
PyDoc_STRVAR(doc_hexlify,
"b2a_hex(data) -> s; Hexadecimal representation of binary data.\n\
\n\
-This function is also available as \"hexlify()\".");
+The return value is a bytes object. This function is also\n\
+available as \"hexlify()\".");
static int