diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index f2c91f1..935827a 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -411,11 +411,11 @@
     MAXFD = 256
 
 # True/False does not exist on 2.2.0
-try:
-    False
-except NameError:
-    False = 0
-    True = 1
+#try:
+#    False
+#except NameError:
+#    False = 0
+#    True = 1
 
 _active = []
 
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@
                         os.chdir(cwd)
 
                     if preexec_fn:
-                        apply(preexec_fn)
+                        preexec_fn()
 
                     if env is None:
                         os.execvp(executable, args)
@@ -1173,7 +1173,8 @@
                     # When select has indicated that the file is writable,
                     # we can write up to PIPE_BUF bytes without risk
                     # blocking.  POSIX defines PIPE_BUF >= 512
-                    bytes_written = os.write(self.stdin.fileno(), buffer(input, input_offset, 512))
+                    chunk = input[input_offset : input_offset + 512]
+                    bytes_written = os.write(self.stdin.fileno(), chunk)
                     input_offset += bytes_written
                     if input_offset >= len(input):
                         self.stdin.close()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2a01e01..3285b24 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -48,8 +48,9 @@
   while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
   ConfigParser, cookielib, DocXMLRPCServer, email, filecmp, fileinput, inspect,
   logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile, pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter,
-  SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support,
-  textwrap, threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
+  SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter,
+  test.test_support, textwrap, threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse,
+  wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
 
 - Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
   raised an AttributeError.