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| author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> | 2013-03-21 01:32:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> | 2013-03-21 01:32:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 1f8a40b81d359c66b6b67dd0f532a655cf490b68 (patch) | |
| tree | 0417a681e406e13d43432c3a337af433b7b5be6d | |
| parent | d312c740f15b2ee8ba242fb779884f7e19b28a7e (diff) | |
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remove the long obsolete mention of universal newlines mode only being
available when configured at compile time.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/subprocess.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/subprocess.py | 7 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index b4adc02..1c8aafd 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -238,11 +238,9 @@ default values. The arguments that are most commonly needed are: .. note:: - The *universal_newlines* feature is supported only if Python is built - with universal newline support (the default). Also, the newlines - attribute of the file objects :attr:`Popen.stdin`, :attr:`Popen.stdout` - and :attr:`Popen.stderr` are not updated by the - :meth:`Popen.communicate` method. + The newlines attribute of the file objects :attr:`Popen.stdin`, + :attr:`Popen.stdout` and :attr:`Popen.stderr` are not updated by + the :meth:`Popen.communicate` method. If *shell* is ``True``, the specified command will be executed through the shell. This can be useful if you are using Python primarily for the diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py index 1a21455..7cfe5df 100644 --- a/Lib/subprocess.py +++ b/Lib/subprocess.py @@ -108,10 +108,9 @@ If universal_newlines is true, the file objects stdout and stderr are opened as a text files, but lines may be terminated by any of '\n', the Unix end-of-line convention, '\r', the old Macintosh convention or '\r\n', the Windows convention. All of these external representations -are seen as '\n' by the Python program. Note: This feature is only -available if Python is built with universal newline support (the -default). Also, the newlines attribute of the file objects stdout, -stdin and stderr are not updated by the communicate() method. +are seen as '\n' by the Python program. Also, the newlines attribute +of the file objects stdout, stdin and stderr are not updated by the +communicate() method. The startupinfo and creationflags, if given, will be passed to the underlying CreateProcess() function. They can specify things such as |