https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4a3fc49d2d462d90922e3b5708b0f7d0b475edf2
commit: 4a3fc49d2d462d90922e3b5708b0f7d0b475edf2
branch: 3.12
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: erlend-aasland <[email protected]>
date: 2024-04-01T19:56:36Z
summary:

[3.12] Docs: add more links to PIPE in subprocess docs (GH-25416) (#117427)

(cherry picked from commit fc2071687b708598264a3403b7f9104667c1092f)

Co-authored-by: Matthew Davis <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/subprocess.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 1dcfea58a8e89f..5281bae90a15c6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -52,10 +52,12 @@ underlying :class:`Popen` interface can be used directly.
 
    If *capture_output* is true, stdout and stderr will be captured.
    When used, the internal :class:`Popen` object is automatically created with
-   ``stdout=PIPE`` and ``stderr=PIPE``. The *stdout* and *stderr* arguments may
-   not be supplied at the same time as *capture_output*.  If you wish to 
capture
-   and combine both streams into one, use ``stdout=PIPE`` and ``stderr=STDOUT``
-   instead of *capture_output*.
+   *stdout* and *stdin* both set to :data:`~subprocess.PIPE`.
+   The *stdout* and *stderr* arguments may not be supplied at the same time as 
*capture_output*.
+   If you wish to capture and combine both streams into one,
+   set *stdout* to :data:`~subprocess.PIPE`
+   and *stderr* to :data:`~subprocess.STDOUT`,
+   instead of using *capture_output*.
 
    A *timeout* may be specified in seconds, it is internally passed on to
    :meth:`Popen.communicate`. If the timeout expires, the child process will be
@@ -69,7 +71,8 @@ underlying :class:`Popen` interface can be used directly.
    subprocess's stdin.  If used it must be a byte sequence, or a string if
    *encoding* or *errors* is specified or *text* is true.  When
    used, the internal :class:`Popen` object is automatically created with
-   ``stdin=PIPE``, and the *stdin* argument may not be used as well.
+   *stdin* set to :data:`~subprocess.PIPE`,
+   and the *stdin* argument may not be used as well.
 
    If *check* is true, and the process exits with a non-zero exit code, a
    :exc:`CalledProcessError` exception will be raised. Attributes of that

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