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-rw-r--r--pyramid/compat.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pyramid/compat.py b/pyramid/compat.py
index 484cb7b97..12b8c9f37 100644
--- a/pyramid/compat.py
+++ b/pyramid/compat.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ else:
def text_(s, encoding='latin-1', errors='strict'):
""" If ``s`` is an instance of ``binary_type``, return
- ``s.encode(encoding, errors)``, otherwise return ``s``"""
+ ``s.decode(encoding, errors)``, otherwise return ``s``"""
if isinstance(s, binary_type):
return s.decode(encoding, errors)
return s # pragma: no cover