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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index fc456a1..b4adc02 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -537,9 +537,10 @@ Instances of the :class:`Popen` class have the following methods: .. method:: Popen.communicate(input=None) Interact with process: Send data to stdin. Read data from stdout and stderr, - until end-of-file is reached. Wait for process to terminate. The optional - *input* argument should be a byte string to be sent to the child process, or - ``None``, if no data should be sent to the child. + until end-of-file is reached. Wait for process to terminate. The optional + *input* argument should be data to be sent to the child process, or + ``None``, if no data should be sent to the child. The type of *input* + must be bytes or, if *universal_newlines* was ``True``, a string. :meth:`communicate` returns a tuple ``(stdoutdata, stderrdata)``. |