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  r67511 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-04 00:22:58 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't configure logging.
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  r67536 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-12-04 21:21:09 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Adds a subprocess.check_call_output() function to return the output from a
  process on success or raise an exception on error.
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  r67537 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-04 21:32:18 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Took Nick Coghlan's advice about importing warnings globally in logging, to avoid the possibility of race conditions: "This could deadlock if a thread spawned as a side effect of importing a module happens to trigger a warning. warnings is pulled into sys.modules as part of the interpreter startup - having a global 'import warnings' shouldn't have any real effect on logging's import time."
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  r67543 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-12-05 03:27:01 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  rename the new check_call_output to check_output.  its less ugly.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 6aff816..588b3e1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -156,6 +156,30 @@
       check_call(["ls", "-l"])
 
 
+.. function:: check_output(*popenargs, **kwargs)
+
+   Run command with arguments and return its output as a byte string.
+
+   If the exit code was non-zero it raises a CalledProcessError.  The
+   CalledProcessError object will have the return code in the returncode
+   attribute and output in the output attribute.
+
+   The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor.  Example:
+
+      >>> subprocess.check_output(["ls", "-l", "/dev/null"])
+      'crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Oct 18  2007 /dev/null\n'
+
+   The stdout argument is not allowed as it is used internally.
+   To capture standard error in the result, use stderr=subprocess.STDOUT.
+
+      >>> subprocess.check_output(
+              ["/bin/sh", "-c", "ls non_existant_file ; exit 0"],
+              stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+      'ls: non_existant_file: No such file or directory\n'
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.1
+
+
 .. function:: getstatusoutput(cmd)
    Return ``(status, output)`` of executing *cmd* in a shell.
 
@@ -175,7 +199,7 @@
 
 
 .. function:: getoutput(cmd)
-   Return output ``(stdout or stderr)`` of executing *cmd* in a shell.
+   Return output (stdout and stderr) of executing *cmd* in a shell.
 
    Like :func:`getstatusoutput`, except the exit status is ignored and the return
    value is a string containing the command's output.  Example::