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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-09-07 18:44:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-09-07 18:44:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 31be544721670516fa9700e088c022ff38b0c5fe (patch) | |
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bpo-24888: Clarify subprocess.check_call propagates exceptions if unable to start process (GH-28018)
(cherry picked from commit 19a304ba990481f0381a5316096b6b3cf2dff381)
Co-authored-by: DonnaDia <37962843+DonnaDia@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index af54633..21a96a4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -1149,6 +1149,8 @@ calls these functions. code was zero then return, otherwise raise :exc:`CalledProcessError`. The :exc:`CalledProcessError` object will have the return code in the :attr:`~CalledProcessError.returncode` attribute. + If :func:`check_call` was unable to start the process it will propagate the exception + that was raised. Code needing to capture stdout or stderr should use :func:`run` instead:: |