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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index cafd233..3dfa1a4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ use cases, the underlying :class:`Popen` interface can be used directly. .. function:: check_output(args, *, stdin=None, stderr=None, shell=False, universal_newlines=False, timeout=None) - Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string. + Run command with arguments and return its output. If the return code was non-zero it raises a :exc:`CalledProcessError`. The :exc:`CalledProcessError` object will have the return code in the |