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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-11-08 21:08:08 (GMT) |
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gh-99238: clarify the type of the env dict. (GH-99253)
(cherry picked from commit 2eee9d9cd7eb1e396fa9a4af7c5fadeeafbdaa38)
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index f35a820..ae1cb8f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ underlying :class:`Popen` interface can be used directly. If *env* is not ``None``, it must be a mapping that defines the environment variables for the new process; these are used instead of the default - behavior of inheriting the current process' environment. It is passed directly - to :class:`Popen`. + behavior of inheriting the current process' environment. It is passed + directly to :class:`Popen`. This mapping can be str to str on any platform + or bytes to bytes on POSIX platforms much like :data:`os.environ` or + :data:`os.environb`. Examples:: @@ -611,7 +613,9 @@ functions. If *env* is not ``None``, it must be a mapping that defines the environment variables for the new process; these are used instead of the default - behavior of inheriting the current process' environment. + behavior of inheriting the current process' environment. This mapping can be + str to str on any platform or bytes to bytes on POSIX platforms much like + :data:`os.environ` or :data:`os.environb`. .. note:: |