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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2013-03-20 06:36:31 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2013-03-20 06:36:31 (GMT)
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clarifiy the documentation for issue17285. see also commit
ee30400efceb which updated the docstring.
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@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ use cases, the underlying :class:`Popen` interface can be used directly.
.. function:: check_output(args, *, stdin=None, stderr=None, shell=False, universal_newlines=False, timeout=None)
- Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string.
+ Run command with arguments and return its output.
If the return code was non-zero it raises a :exc:`CalledProcessError`. The
:exc:`CalledProcessError` object will have the return code in the