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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2022-11-08 21:00:31 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-11-08 21:00:31 (GMT)
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gh-99238: clarify the type of the env dict. (#99253)
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@@ -81,8 +81,10 @@ underlying :class:`Popen` interface can be used directly.
If *env* is not ``None``, it must be a mapping that defines the environment
variables for the new process; these are used instead of the default
- behavior of inheriting the current process' environment. It is passed directly
- to :class:`Popen`.
+ behavior of inheriting the current process' environment. It is passed
+ directly to :class:`Popen`. This mapping can be str to str on any platform
+ or bytes to bytes on POSIX platforms much like :data:`os.environ` or
+ :data:`os.environb`.
Examples::
@@ -619,7 +621,9 @@ functions.
If *env* is not ``None``, it must be a mapping that defines the environment
variables for the new process; these are used instead of the default
- behavior of inheriting the current process' environment.
+ behavior of inheriting the current process' environment. This mapping can be
+ str to str on any platform or bytes to bytes on POSIX platforms much like
+ :data:`os.environ` or :data:`os.environb`.
.. note::