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