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Update subprocess.communicate() docstring.

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Explicitly state that communicate() closes stdin after writing input to it.
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Joel Schaerer 2017-09-13 21:11:20 +02:00 • committed by Gregory P. Smith
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@ -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