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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 3574b53..82f7cc0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -437,6 +437,17 @@ string expression pattern for braced placeholders and non-braced placeholders separately. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw in :issue:`1198569`.) +subprocess +---------- + +On Windows the default for *close_fds* was changed from :const:`False` to +:const:`True` when redirecting the standard handles. It's now possible to set +*close_fds* to :const:`True` when redirecting the standard handles. See +:class:`subprocess.Popen`. + +This means that *close_fds* now defaults to :const:`True` on all supported +platforms. + sys --- @@ -883,6 +894,14 @@ Changes in the Python API .. _Unicode Technical Standard #18: https://unicode.org/reports/tr18/ +* On Windows the default for the *close_fds* argument of + :class:`subprocess.Popen` was changed from :const:`False` to :const:`True` + when redirecting the standard handles. If you previously depended on handles + being inherited when using :class:`subprocess.Popen` with standard io + redirection, you will have to pass ``close_fds=False`` to preserve the + previous behaviour, or use + :attr:`STARTUPINFO.lpAttributeList <subprocess.STARTUPINFO.lpAttributeList>`. + Changes in the C API -------------------- |