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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/subprocess.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py index 88f0230..de88eed 100644 --- a/Lib/subprocess.py +++ b/Lib/subprocess.py @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ def _text_encoding(): def call(*popenargs, timeout=None, **kwargs): """Run command with arguments. Wait for command to complete or - timeout, then return the returncode attribute. + for timeout seconds, then return the returncode attribute. The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor. Example: @@ -523,8 +523,8 @@ def run(*popenargs, in the returncode attribute, and output & stderr attributes if those streams were captured. - If timeout is given, and the process takes too long, a TimeoutExpired - exception will be raised. + If timeout (seconds) is given and the process takes too long, + a TimeoutExpired exception will be raised. There is an optional argument "input", allowing you to pass bytes or a string to the subprocess's stdin. If you use this argument |