bpo-28624: Add a test that checks that cwd parameter of Popen() accepts PathLike objects (#157) (#323)
(cherry picked from commit d5c11f7ace48701bb950c6345deee88c35c66e26)
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index ad2abe8..548e4a6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -466,9 +466,13 @@
The *pass_fds* parameter was added.
If *cwd* is not ``None``, the function changes the working directory to
- *cwd* before executing the child. In particular, the function looks for
- *executable* (or for the first item in *args*) relative to *cwd* if the
- executable path is a relative path.
+ *cwd* before executing the child. *cwd* can be a :class:`str` and
+ :term:`path-like <path-like object>` object. In particular, the function
+ looks for *executable* (or for the first item in *args*) relative to *cwd*
+ if the executable path is a relative path.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+ *cwd* parameter accepts a :term:`path-like object`.
If *restore_signals* is true (the default) all signals that Python has set to
SIG_IGN are restored to SIG_DFL in the child process before the exec.