Address comments in PR

mdboom · mdboom · commit 4f17dbd4da08 · 2016-03-23T15:43:05.000-04:00
diff --git a/doc/faq/howto_faq.rst b/doc/faq/howto_faq.rst
@@ -661,11 +661,11 @@ or by saving to a file handle::
     fig.savefig(sys.stdout)
 
 Here is an example using `Pillow <http://python-imaging.github.io/>`_.
-First, the figure is saved to a StringIO object which is then fed to
+First, the figure is saved to a BytesIO object which is then fed to
 Pillow for further processing::
 
     from io import BytesIO
-    import Image
+    from PIL import Image
     imgdata = BytesIO()
     fig.savefig(imgdata, format='png')
     imgdata.seek(0)  # rewind the data
diff --git a/examples/misc/svg_filter_line.py b/examples/misc/svg_filter_line.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 ax.set_xlim(0., 1.)
 ax.set_ylim(0., 1.)
 
-# save the figure as a string in the svg format.
+# save the figure as a bytes string in the svg format.
 from io import BytesIO
 f = BytesIO()
 plt.savefig(f, format="svg")
