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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:47:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: gh-125298: Remove misleading text in os.kill documentation (GH-125749)
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gh-125298: Remove misleading text in os.kill documentation (GH-125749)

Windows has not accepted process handles in many releases.
(cherry picked from commit 75ffac296ef24758b7e5bd9316f32a8170ade37f)

Co-authored-by: RUANG (James Roy) <longjinyii@outlook.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 423480e927c9..18e58249a81b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -4245,8 +4245,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program.
    only be sent to console processes which share a common console window,
    e.g., some subprocesses. Any other value for *sig* will cause the process
    to be unconditionally killed by the TerminateProcess API, and the exit code
-   will be set to *sig*. The Windows version of :func:`kill` additionally takes
-   process handles to be killed.
+   will be set to *sig*.
 
    See also :func:`signal.pthread_kill`.