remove the long obsolete mention of universal newlines mode only being
available when configured at compile time.
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index b4adc02..1c8aafd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -238,11 +238,9 @@
.. note::
- The *universal_newlines* feature is supported only if Python is built
- with universal newline support (the default). Also, the newlines
- attribute of the file objects :attr:`Popen.stdin`, :attr:`Popen.stdout`
- and :attr:`Popen.stderr` are not updated by the
- :meth:`Popen.communicate` method.
+ The newlines attribute of the file objects :attr:`Popen.stdin`,
+ :attr:`Popen.stdout` and :attr:`Popen.stderr` are not updated by
+ the :meth:`Popen.communicate` method.
If *shell* is ``True``, the specified command will be executed through
the shell. This can be useful if you are using Python primarily for the
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 1a21455..7cfe5df 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -108,10 +108,9 @@
opened as a text files, but lines may be terminated by any of '\n',
the Unix end-of-line convention, '\r', the old Macintosh convention or
'\r\n', the Windows convention. All of these external representations
-are seen as '\n' by the Python program. Note: This feature is only
-available if Python is built with universal newline support (the
-default). Also, the newlines attribute of the file objects stdout,
-stdin and stderr are not updated by the communicate() method.
+are seen as '\n' by the Python program. Also, the newlines attribute
+of the file objects stdout, stdin and stderr are not updated by the
+communicate() method.
The startupinfo and creationflags, if given, will be passed to the
underlying CreateProcess() function. They can specify things such as