On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:45:51 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Le Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:30:50 +0200, > Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > 2013/9/9 Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org>: > > > Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, > > > including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. Major new > > > features and changes in the 3.4 release series so far include: > > > > > > * PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default > > > in subprocesses > > > > The title of the PEP is "Make newly created file descriptors > > non-inheritable". It has an impact on all functions creating files and > > sockets not only the subprocess module. > > I don't think Larry's description is wrong. "Non-inheritable" is a > shorthand for "non-inheritable in subprocesses" with "subprocesses" > taken in the general sense (i.e. not only created with the subprocess > module).
Not wrong, but definitely confusing. It is worth clarifying *somehow* that this does not apply only to the subprocess module, which is what a naive (or fast) reader will assume. --David
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