[New-bugs-announce] [issue4409] Dangling asterisks in Python 3.0 subprocess docs

[Skip Montanaro]

New submission from Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com>:

Georg,

I just noticed that there are asterisks in a couple places in the subprocess
module documentation which don't appear to have corresponding footnotes.
All the way at the bottom are subsections called

    Replacing os.spawn*    
    Replacing os.popen*

I don't know what the '*' is supposed to mean, but in normal usage it would
tell the user there is a footnote which elaborates on something related to
that text.  I don't see any such footnotes.  Oh, wait a minute.  You
probably mean for them to be wildcards.  Hmmm...  Probably not the best
usage.  Can you find a different way to indicate that those examples refer
to a larger category of functions?

Skip

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title: Dangling asterisks in Python 3.0 subprocess docs

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