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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 9a4f42caa4..d13fc3d920 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2316,11 +2316,15 @@ the bytes type has an additional class method to read data in that format: This :class:`bytes` class method returns a bytes object, decoding the given string object. The string must contain two hexadecimal digits per - byte, with ASCII spaces being ignored. + byte, with ASCII whitespace being ignored. >>> bytes.fromhex('2Ef0 F1f2 ') b'.\xf0\xf1\xf2' + .. versionchanged:: 3.7 + :meth:`bytes.fromhex` now skips all ASCII whitespace in the string, + not just spaces. + A reverse conversion function exists to transform a bytes object into its hexadecimal representation. @@ -2384,11 +2388,15 @@ the bytearray type has an additional class method to read data in that format: This :class:`bytearray` class method returns bytearray object, decoding the given string object. The string must contain two hexadecimal digits - per byte, with ASCII spaces being ignored. + per byte, with ASCII whitespace being ignored. >>> bytearray.fromhex('2Ef0 F1f2 ') bytearray(b'.\xf0\xf1\xf2') + .. versionchanged:: 3.7 + :meth:`bytearray.fromhex` now skips all ASCII whitespace in the string, + not just spaces. + A reverse conversion function exists to transform a bytearray object into its hexadecimal representation. |