#7381: subprocess documentation and library docstring consistency fixes.
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index f143460..b09a649 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -128,15 +128,15 @@
check_call(["ls", "-l"])
check_output(*popenargs, **kwargs):
- Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string.
+ Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string.
- If the exit code was non-zero it raises a CalledProcessError. The
- CalledProcessError object will have the return code in the returncode
- attribute and output in the output attribute.
+ If the exit code was non-zero it raises a CalledProcessError. The
+ CalledProcessError object will have the return code in the returncode
+ attribute and output in the output attribute.
- The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor. Example:
+ The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor. Example:
- output = subprocess.check_output(["ls", "-l", "/dev/null"])
+ output = subprocess.check_output(["ls", "-l", "/dev/null"])
Exceptions
----------
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@
def check_output(*popenargs, **kwargs):
- """Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string.
+ r"""Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string.
If the exit code was non-zero it raises a CalledProcessError. The
CalledProcessError object will have the return code in the returncode
@@ -520,8 +520,8 @@
To capture standard error in the result, use stderr=subprocess.STDOUT.
>>> check_output(["/bin/sh", "-c",
- "ls -l non_existent_file ; exit 0"],
- stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+ ... "ls -l non_existent_file ; exit 0"],
+ ... stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
'ls: non_existent_file: No such file or directory\n'
"""
if 'stdout' in kwargs: