https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8ebb6a051b01ddede63cbf7437aa920af0a8625f
commit: 8ebb6a051b01ddede63cbf7437aa920af0a8625f
branch: 3.13
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: zooba <[email protected]>
date: 2024-11-08T15:47:52Z
summary:

gh-125298: Remove misleading text in os.kill documentation (GH-125749)

Windows has not accepted process handles in many releases.
(cherry picked from commit 75ffac296ef24758b7e5bd9316f32a8170ade37f)

Co-authored-by: RUANG (James Roy) <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/os.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index e118b1e861f768..454e6d769fa555 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -4532,8 +4532,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external 
command delivery program.
    only be sent to console processes which share a common console window,
    e.g., some subprocesses. Any other value for *sig* will cause the process
    to be unconditionally killed by the TerminateProcess API, and the exit code
-   will be set to *sig*. The Windows version of :func:`kill` additionally takes
-   process handles to be killed.
+   will be set to *sig*.
 
    See also :func:`signal.pthread_kill`.
 

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