[issue34525] smtplib's authobject return value wrongly documented

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset c0db8177dc9a7f79941551576e1faea9724e027d by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6': closes bpo-34525: Fix smtplib's authobject() documentation (GH-8965) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c0db8177dc9a7f79941551576e1faea9724e027d

[issue34525] smtplib's authobject return value wrongly documented

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 011141f312f11b35ac163d9d52fe48e4bb61a814 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': closes bpo-34525: Fix smtplib's authobject() documentation (GH-8965) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/011141f312f11b35ac163d9d52fe48e4bb61a814

[issue34525] smtplib's authobject return value wrongly documented

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[issue34525] smtplib's authobject return value wrongly documented

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[issue34525] smtplib's authobject return value wrongly documented

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: New changeset 78deb7f33227972987722bc3fed5bcb45fae869e by Benjamin Peterson (Sebastian Rittau) in branch 'master': closes bpo-34525: Fix smtplib's authobject() documentation (GH-8965)

[issue34525] smtplib's authobject return value wrongly documented

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[issue34525] smtplib's authobject return value wrongly documented

New submission from Sebastian Rittau : smtplib's authobject() callback is supposed to return bytes, according to both the documentation at https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtplib.html as well as the docstring of SMTP.auth(). This does neither match the implementation of auth(), which