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| author | Andrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2014-04-14 19:08:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2014-04-14 19:08:18 (GMT) |
| commit | 4f7b0c3c358fe614042951a4ecacf73f08254699 (patch) | |
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#10481: describe universal_newlines' effect on communicate()/check_output() output (alternately bytes or strings)
Patch by Sam Kimbrel.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index cdcbe82..3043708 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -660,6 +660,7 @@ Instances of the :class:`Popen` class have the following methods: must be bytes or, if *universal_newlines* was ``True``, a string. :meth:`communicate` returns a tuple ``(stdoutdata, stderrdata)``. + The data will be bytes or, if *universal_newlines* was ``True``, strings. 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 |