#2683: communicate() takes bytes.
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 38f4063..d85f5dc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
This feature is only available if Python is built with universal newline support
(the default). Also, the newlines attribute of the file objects :attr:`stdout`,
- :attr:`stdin` and :attr:`stderr` are not updated by the communicate() method.
+ :attr:`stdin` and :attr:`stderr` are not updated by the :meth:`communicate` method.
The *startupinfo* and *creationflags*, if given, will be passed to the
underlying CreateProcess() function. They can specify things such as appearance
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
Interact with process: Send data to stdin. Read data from stdout and stderr,
until end-of-file is reached. Wait for process to terminate. The optional
- *input* argument should be a string to be sent to the child process, or
+ *input* argument should be a byte string to be sent to the child process, or
``None``, if no data should be sent to the child.
:meth:`communicate` returns a tuple ``(stdout, stderr)``.