From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:40:50 +0000 (-0800) Subject: bpo-45896: Fix docs default asyncio event loop on Windows (GH-29857) (GH-29878) X-Git-Tag: v3.9.10~88 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4203a5d1918ca874e305806b787e3c8c6fc35e3e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-45896: Fix docs default asyncio event loop on Windows (GH-29857) (GH-29878) (cherry picked from commit f27bef30438d2f07f19de91e021f34b77ccc4b20) Co-authored-by: Rob Co-authored-by: Rob --- diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst index d70aeae766ae..73799d005c15 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst @@ -1239,9 +1239,10 @@ async/await code consider using the high-level .. note:: - The default asyncio event loop on **Windows** does not support - subprocesses. See :ref:`Subprocess Support on Windows - ` for details. + On Windows, the default event loop :class:`ProactorEventLoop` supports + subprocesses, whereas :class:`SelectorEventLoop` does not. See + :ref:`Subprocess Support on Windows ` for + details. .. coroutinemethod:: loop.subprocess_exec(protocol_factory, *args, \ stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, \