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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/subprocess.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index ca0813c..3280c95 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -567,6 +567,13 @@ functions. Popen destructor now emits a :exc:`ResourceWarning` warning if the child process is still running. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 + Popen can use :func:`os.posix_spawn` in some cases for better + performance. On Windows Subsystem for Linux and QEMU User Emulation, + Popen constructor using :func:`os.posix_spawn` no longer raise an + exception on errors like missing program, but the child process fails + with a non-zero :attr:`~Popen.returncode`. + Exceptions ^^^^^^^^^^ diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index ae8163a..344656b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -729,6 +729,12 @@ Changes in Python behavior Changes in the Python API ------------------------- +* :class:`subprocess.Popen` can now use :func:`os.posix_spawn` in some cases + for better performance. On Windows Subsystem for Linux and QEMU User + Emulation, Popen constructor using :func:`os.posix_spawn` no longer raise an + exception on errors like missing program, but the child process fails with a + non-zero :attr:`~Popen.returncode`. + * The :meth:`imap.IMAP4.logout` method no longer ignores silently arbitrary exceptions. |