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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-12-04 21:28:16 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-12-04 21:28:16 (GMT)
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Clarification to avoid confusing output with file descriptors.
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@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Instances of the :class:`Popen` class have the following methods:
*input* argument should be a string to be sent to the child process, or
``None``, if no data should be sent to the child.
- :meth:`communicate` returns a tuple ``(stdout, stderr)``.
+ :meth:`communicate` returns a tuple ``(stdoutdata, stderrdata)``.
Note that if you want to send data to the process's stdin, you need to create
the Popen object with ``stdin=PIPE``. Similarly, to get anything other than