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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index 70a21eb..7dfda5a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -303,7 +303,8 @@ default values. The arguments that are most commonly needed are: If *universal_newlines* is ``True``, the file objects *stdin*, *stdout* and *stderr* will be opened as text streams in :term:`universal newlines` mode using the encoding returned by :func:`locale.getpreferredencoding(False) - <locale.getpreferredencoding>`. For *stdin*, line ending characters + <locale.getpreferredencoding>`, otherwise these streams will be opened + as binary streams. For *stdin*, line ending characters ``'\n'`` in the input will be converted to the default line separator :data:`os.linesep`. For *stdout* and *stderr*, all line endings in the output will be converted to ``'\n'``. For more information see the @@ -547,7 +548,8 @@ functions. If *universal_newlines* is ``True``, the file objects *stdin*, *stdout* and *stderr* are opened as text streams in universal newlines mode, as - described above in :ref:`frequently-used-arguments`. + described above in :ref:`frequently-used-arguments`, otherwise they are + opened as binary streams. If given, *startupinfo* will be a :class:`STARTUPINFO` object, which is passed to the underlying ``CreateProcess`` function. |