[1.10.x] Documented that cache keys are strings rather than bytes.

Backport of 968f61b99180a17e1752432df38f28f192c6cf86 from master

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt
index 6f6fce0a71..12f27c2db6 100644
--- a/docs/topics/cache.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt
@@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ The basic interface is ``set(key, value, timeout)`` and ``get(key)``::
     >>> cache.get('my_key')
     'hello, world!'
 
+``key`` should be a ``str`` (or ``unicode`` on Python 2), and ``value`` can be
+any picklable Python object.
+
 The ``timeout`` argument is optional and defaults to the ``timeout`` argument
 of the appropriate backend in the :setting:`CACHES` setting (explained above).
 It's the number of seconds the value should be stored in the cache. Passing in