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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-04-19 16:58:49 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-04-19 16:58:49 (GMT) |
| commit | f801b0f04cf08d077f648febf4af1b7f94b81dd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b01be702f466e2c30acb174a31afbf21514ba39 /Doc | |
| parent | fb246c410b6c9158c14e0b78ef0feff0f75ae1f6 (diff) | |
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#2633: clarify meaning of env parameter.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index d1471f1..b93bd03 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ This module defines one class called :class:`Popen`: searching the executable, so you can't specify the program's path relative to *cwd*. - If *env* is not ``None``, it defines the environment variables for the new - process. + If *env* is not ``None``, it must be a mapping that defines the environment + variables for the new process; these are used instead of inheriting the current + process' environment, which is the default behavior. If *universal_newlines* is :const:`True`, the file objects stdout and stderr are opened as text files, but lines may be terminated by any of ``'\n'``, the Unix |