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authorRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2013-07-07 07:28:01 (GMT)
committerRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2013-07-07 07:28:01 (GMT)
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(3.3->default) Cleanup of documentation change from #17860
Reformulated the textual change, and applied it to the docstring as well.
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@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ in the child process prior to executing the command.
If env is not None, it defines the environment variables for the new
process.
+If universal_newlines is false, the file objects stdin, stdout and stderr
+are opened as binary files, and no line ending conversion is done.
+
If universal_newlines is true, the file objects stdout and stderr are
opened as a text files, but lines may be terminated by any of '\n',
the Unix end-of-line convention, '\r', the old Macintosh convention or