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-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libfunctional.tex2
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libsubprocess.tex4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfunctional.tex b/Doc/lib/libfunctional.tex
index 86b1483050..367eeefbea 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfunctional.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfunctional.tex
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ they extend and override \var{keywords}. Roughly equivalent to:
The \function{partial} is used for partial function application which
``freezes'' some portion of a function's arguments and/or keywords
-resulting in an new object with a simplified signature. For example,
+resulting in a new object with a simplified signature. For example,
\function{partial} can be used to create a callable that behaves like
the \function{int} function where the \var{base} argument defaults to
two:
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsubprocess.tex b/Doc/lib/libsubprocess.tex
index 5a2a835f1e..81b48bcaca 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsubprocess.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsubprocess.tex
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Wait for child process to terminate. Returns returncode attribute.
\begin{methoddesc}{communicate}{input=None}
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 \var{stdin} argument should be a string to be sent to the
+The optional \var{input} argument should be a string to be sent to the
child process, or \code{None}, if no data should be sent to the child.
communicate() returns a tuple (stdout, stderr).
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ executed.}
\begin{verbatim}
(child_stdout, child_stdin) = popen2.popen2("somestring", bufsize, mode)
==>
-p = Popen(["somestring"], shell=True, bufsize=bufsize
+p = Popen(["somestring"], shell=True, bufsize=bufsize,
stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, close_fds=True)
(child_stdout, child_stdin) = (p.stdout, p.stdin)
\end{verbatim}