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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
Open the URL *url*, which can be either a string or a
:class:`Request` object.
- *data* may be a string specifying additional data to send to the
+ *data* may be a bytes object specifying additional data to send to the
server, or ``None`` if no such data is needed. *data* may also be an
iterable object and in that case Content-Length value must be specified in
the headers. Currently HTTP requests are the only ones that use *data*; the