On 16 July 2015 at 20:35, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > In which version? I don't see that phrase in the 3.5 docs.
The equivalent note in 3.x is "Do not use stdout=PIPE or stderr=PIPE with this function. The child process will block if it generates enough output to a pipe to fill up the OS pipe buffer as the pipes are not being read from." I think Chris is right that it's a docs bug - the warning is applicable to subprocess.call and subprocess.check_call (which use Popen.wait), but not to subprocess.check_output (which uses Popen.communicate). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
