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r65259 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-27 10:22:14 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jul 2008) | 1 line
clarify Popen argument
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r65263 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-28 12:04:48 -0500 (Mon, 28 Jul 2008) | 1 line
Clarify wording
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r65296 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-30 02:27:30 -0500 (Wed, 30 Jul 2008) | 1 line
Neaten-up the itertools recipes.
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r65307 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-30 08:46:53 -0500 (Wed, 30 Jul 2008) | 1 line
getrandombits is actually getrandbits
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r65321 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-30 20:19:50 -0500 (Wed, 30 Jul 2008) | 4 lines
Alter recipe to show how to call izip_longest() with
both a keyword argument and star arguments.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index daa88b3..bd927c0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@
Arguments are:
- *args* should be a string, or a sequence of program arguments. The program to
- execute is normally the first item in the args sequence or string, but can be
- explicitly set by using the executable argument.
+ *args* should be a string, or a sequence of program arguments. The program
+ to execute is normally the first item in the args sequence or the string if a
+ string is given, but can be explicitly set by using the *executable*
+ argument.
On Unix, with *shell=False* (default): In this case, the Popen class uses
:meth:`os.execvp` to execute the child program. *args* should normally be a