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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2005-06-10 19:55:35 +0000
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2005-06-10 19:55:35 +0000
commitdebd3710b6a15323ee03b4e3a21d3ba536d7e79b (patch)
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Clarify docs about os.popen[234].
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libos.tex4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index 2d0327f55d..517bddca59 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX, Windows.
\end{funcdesc}
-For each of these \function{popen()} variants, if \var{bufsize} is
+For each of the following \function{popen()} variants, if \var{bufsize} is
specified, it specifies the buffer size for the I/O pipes.
\var{mode}, if provided, should be the string \code{'b'} or
\code{'t'}; on Windows this is needed to determine whether the file
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ which case arguments will be passed directly to the program without shell
intervention (as with \function{os.spawnv()}). If \var{cmd} is a string it will
be passed to the shell (as with \function{os.system()}).
-These methods do not make it possible to retrieve the return code from
+These methods do not make it possible to retrieve the exit status from
the child processes. The only way to control the input and output
streams and also retrieve the return codes is to use the
\class{Popen3} and \class{Popen4} classes from the \refmodule{popen2}