diff -r 128fa5eea9b1 Doc/howto/unicode.rst
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst	Fri Dec 18 15:47:28 2015 -0500
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst	Sun Dec 20 17:42:33 2015 +0100
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
 UTF-8 has several convenient properties:
 
 1. It can handle any Unicode code point.
-2. A Unicode string is turned into a string of bytes containing no embedded zero
+2. A Unicode string is turned into a :class:`bytes` object containing no embedded zero
    bytes.  This avoids byte-ordering issues, and means UTF-8 strings can be
    processed by C functions such as ``strcpy()`` and sent through protocols that
    can't handle zero bytes.
diff -r 128fa5eea9b1 Doc/library/logging.config.rst
--- a/Doc/library/logging.config.rst	Fri Dec 18 15:47:28 2015 -0500
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.config.rst	Sun Dec 20 17:42:33 2015 +0100
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
    (perhaps if decryption were performed).
 
    To send a configuration to the socket, read in the configuration file and
-   send it to the socket as a string of bytes preceded by a four-byte length
+   send it to the socket as a :class:`bytes` object preceded by a four-byte length
    string packed in binary using ``struct.pack('>L', n)``.
 
    .. note::
diff -r 128fa5eea9b1 Doc/library/sunau.rst
--- a/Doc/library/sunau.rst	Fri Dec 18 15:47:28 2015 -0500
+++ b/Doc/library/sunau.rst	Sun Dec 20 17:42:33 2015 +0100
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 
 .. method:: AU_read.readframes(n)
 
-   Reads and returns at most *n* frames of audio, as a string of bytes.  The data
+   Reads and returns at most *n* frames of audio, as a :class:`bytes` object.  The data
    will be returned in linear format.  If the original data is in u-LAW format, it
    will be converted.
 
diff -r 128fa5eea9b1 Doc/library/wave.rst
--- a/Doc/library/wave.rst	Fri Dec 18 15:47:28 2015 -0500
+++ b/Doc/library/wave.rst	Sun Dec 20 17:42:33 2015 +0100
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 
 .. method:: Wave_read.readframes(n)
 
-   Reads and returns at most *n* frames of audio, as a string of bytes.
+   Reads and returns at most *n* frames of audio, as a :class:`bytes` object.
 
 
 .. method:: Wave_read.rewind()