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author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2008-12-05 02:27:01 (GMT) |
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committer | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2008-12-05 02:27:01 (GMT) |
commit | 26576801a683fba28e66fca4759fdc327e87ea3e (patch) | |
tree | 22e40cbdb3610f03c9c809ebc969c175ed0fd70b /Doc/library | |
parent | 1743201364feaa9ab56acda3ccef051b2dd1d814 (diff) | |
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rename the new check_call_output to check_output. its less ugly.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index ae2f73b..96b7443 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ This module also defines two shortcut functions: .. versionadded:: 2.5 -.. function:: check_call_output(*popenargs, **kwargs) +.. function:: check_output(*popenargs, **kwargs) Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string. @@ -159,13 +159,13 @@ This module also defines two shortcut functions: The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor. Example: - >>> subprocess.check_call_output(["ls", "-l", "/dev/null"]) + >>> subprocess.check_output(["ls", "-l", "/dev/null"]) 'crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Oct 18 2007 /dev/null\n' The stdout argument is not allowed as it is used internally. To capture standard error in the result, use stderr=subprocess.STDOUT. - >>> subprocess.check_call_output( + >>> subprocess.check_output( ["/bin/sh", "-c", "ls non_existant_file ; exit 0"], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) 'ls: non_existant_file: No such file or directory\n' |