[Python-checkins] Update subprocess.communicate() docstring.

[Gregory P. Smith]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/88031a9adedb594500db643404614f6648beec81
commit: 88031a9adedb594500db643404614f6648beec81
branch: master
author: Joel Schaerer <joelthelion at laposte.net>
committer: Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>
date: 2017-09-13T12:11:20-07:00
summary:

Update subprocess.communicate() docstring.

Explicitly state that communicate() closes stdin after writing input to it.

files:
M Lib/subprocess.py

diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 6b90d40564f..dd994e2aaf1 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -800,9 +800,9 @@ def _stdin_write(self, input):
                 raise
 
     def communicate(self, input=None, timeout=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.
+        """Interact with process: Send data to stdin and close it.
+        Read data from stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is
+        reached.  Wait for process to terminate.
 
         The optional "input" argument should be data to be sent to the
         child process (if self.universal_newlines is True, this should