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diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst index a4c9b1d..e91ec40 100644 --- a/Doc/library/idle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ One may edit pasted code first. If one pastes more than one statement into Shell, the result will be a :exc:`SyntaxError` when multiple statements are compiled as if they were one. -Lines containing ``'RESTART'`` mean that the user execution process has been +Lines containing ``RESTART`` mean that the user execution process has been re-started. This occurs when the user execution process has crashed, when one requests a restart on the Shell menu, or when one runs code in an editor window. @@ -775,7 +775,9 @@ IDLE's standard stream replacements are not inherited by subprocesses created in the execution process, whether directly by user code or by modules such as multiprocessing. If such subprocess use ``input`` from sys.stdin or ``print`` or ``write`` to sys.stdout or sys.stderr, -IDLE should be started in a command line window. The secondary subprocess +IDLE should be started in a command line window. (On Windows, +use ``python`` or ``py`` rather than ``pythonw`` or ``pyw``.) +The secondary subprocess will then be attached to that window for input and output. If ``sys`` is reset by user code, such as with ``importlib.reload(sys)``, |