[issue17286] Make subprocess handling text output with universal_newlines more obious

Change by Cheryl Sabella : -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> subprocess.run should alias universal_newlines to text ___ Python tracker

[issue17286] Make subprocess handling text output with universal_newlines more obious

Change by Mark Lawrence : -- nosy: -BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17286] Make subprocess handling text output with universal_newlines more obious

bbayles added the comment: This is fixed in 3.7 with the `text` parameter. See GitHub PR 4049: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/4049 -- nosy: +bbayles ___ Python tracker

[issue17286] Make subprocess handling text output with universal_newlines more obious

Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- stage: - needs patch versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17286

[issue17286] Make subprocess handling text output with universal_newlines more obious

Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Baptiste can you provide a patch for this? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17286 ___

[issue17286] Make subprocess handling text output with universal_newlines more obious

New submission from Baptiste Lepilleur: It tooks me a while to figure out that using universal_newlines was the solution to tell subprocess that I wanted text string output instead of byte string. A search on stackoverflow shows that this issue is common and the solution nearly unknown