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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-12-04 21:28:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-12-04 21:28:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 1743201364feaa9ab56acda3ccef051b2dd1d814 (patch) | |
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Clarification to avoid confusing output with file descriptors.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index 468892a..ae2f73b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -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 |