From: Joel Schaerer <joelthelion@laposte.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:11:20 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Update subprocess.communicate() docstring.
X-Git-Tag: v3.7.0a1~54
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=88031a9adedb594500db643404614f6648beec81;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Update subprocess.communicate() docstring.

Explicitly state that communicate() closes stdin after writing input to it.
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diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 6b90d40564fc..dd994e2aaf15 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -800,9 +800,9 @@ class Popen(object):
                 raise
 
     def communicate(self, input=None, timeout=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.
+        """Interact with process: Send data to stdin and close it.
+        Read data from stdout and stderr, 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 (if self.universal_newlines is True, this should