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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/subprocess.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/subprocess.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py index aa3e217..e01cbd7 100644 --- a/Lib/subprocess.py +++ b/Lib/subprocess.py @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ getoutput(cmd): '/bin/ls' check_output(*popenargs, **kwargs): - Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string. + Run command with arguments and return its output. If the exit code was non-zero it raises a CalledProcessError. The CalledProcessError object will have the return code in the returncode @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ def check_call(*popenargs, **kwargs): def check_output(*popenargs, timeout=None, **kwargs): - r"""Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string. + r"""Run command with arguments and return its output. If the exit code was non-zero it raises a CalledProcessError. The CalledProcessError object will have the return code in the returncode @@ -565,6 +565,9 @@ def check_output(*popenargs, timeout=None, **kwargs): ... "ls -l non_existent_file ; exit 0"], ... stderr=STDOUT) b'ls: non_existent_file: No such file or directory\n' + + If universal_newlines=True is passed, the return value will be a + string rather than bytes. """ if 'stdout' in kwargs: raise ValueError('stdout argument not allowed, it will be overridden.') |