Jordan Macdonald added the comment:
Eryk Sun: Well, I think step 1 should be to update the documentation for Python
3.7 through 3.10 on `subprocess.run()` and `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` to
clearly state that `TimeoutExpired.stdout` and `TimeoutExpired.stderr` will be
in bytes format even
New submission from Jordan Macdonald :
Passing the argument `text=True` to `subprocess.run()` is supposed to mean that
any captured output of the called process is automatically decoded and retuned
to the user as test instead of bytes.
However, if you give a timeout and that timeout expires
