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| author | Joel Schaerer <joelthelion@laposte.net> | 2017-09-13 19:11:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> | 2017-09-13 19:11:20 (GMT) |
| commit | 88031a9adedb594500db643404614f6648beec81 (patch) | |
| tree | d1c90bc3fa63e1f4cf463a193025a456d94e0ff0 | |
| parent | acb9fa79fa6453c2bbe3ccfc9cad2837feb90093 (diff) | |
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Update subprocess.communicate() docstring.
Explicitly state that communicate() closes stdin after writing input to it.
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/subprocess.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py index 6b90d40..dd994e2 100644 --- a/Lib/subprocess.py +++ b/Lib/subprocess.py @@ -800,9 +800,9 @@ class Popen(object): raise def communicate(self, input=None, timeout=None): - """Interact with process: Send data to stdin. Read data from - stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is reached. Wait for - process to terminate. + """Interact with process: Send data to stdin and close it. + Read data from stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is + reached. Wait for process to terminate. The optional "input" argument should be data to be sent to the child process (if self.universal_newlines is True, this should |