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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2013-03-21 01:32:03 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2013-03-21 01:32:03 (GMT)
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remove the long obsolete mention of universal newlines mode only being
available when configured at compile time.
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diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
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@@ -108,10 +108,9 @@ 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
'\r\n', the Windows convention. All of these external representations
-are seen as '\n' by the Python program. Note: This feature is only
-available if Python is built with universal newline support (the
-default). Also, the newlines attribute of the file objects stdout,
-stdin and stderr are not updated by the communicate() method.
+are seen as '\n' by the Python program. Also, the newlines attribute
+of the file objects stdout, stdin and stderr are not updated by the
+communicate() method.
The startupinfo and creationflags, if given, will be passed to the
underlying CreateProcess() function. They can specify things such as