diff --git a/Doc/c-api/string.rst b/Doc/c-api/string.rst
index d0379c9821e..f2e543cce38 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/string.rst
@@ -2,12 +2,16 @@
 
 .. _stringobjects:
 
-String Objects
---------------
+String/Bytes Objects
+--------------------
 
 These functions raise :exc:`TypeError` when expecting a string parameter and are
 called with a non-string parameter.
 
+.. note::
+   These functions have been renamed to PyBytes_* in Python 3.x. The PyBytes
+   names are also available in 2.6.
+
 .. index:: object: string