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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index 3dfa1a4..9eae1e6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -300,11 +300,9 @@ default values. The arguments that are most commonly needed are: .. note:: - The *universal_newlines* feature is supported only if Python is built - with universal newline support (the default). Also, the newlines - attribute of the file objects :attr:`Popen.stdin`, :attr:`Popen.stdout` - and :attr:`Popen.stderr` are not updated by the - :meth:`Popen.communicate` method. + The newlines attribute of the file objects :attr:`Popen.stdin`, + :attr:`Popen.stdout` and :attr:`Popen.stderr` are not updated by + the :meth:`Popen.communicate` method. If *shell* is ``True``, the specified command will be executed through the shell. This can be useful if you are using Python primarily for the diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py index 20f359a..e023d85 100644 --- a/Lib/subprocess.py +++ b/Lib/subprocess.py @@ -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 |