New submission from anatoly techtonik : http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#exceptions documentation is wrong at least for the case when shell=True on Linux. An attempt to execute a non-existent file with: process = subprocess.Popen("sdfsdf", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=errpipe) out, err = process.communicate() print out Results in a message "/bin/sh: sfs: command not found" with no exceptions. Other statements may be invalid too. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Library (Lib) messages: 161329 nosy: docs@python, techtonik priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: invalid docs for subprocess exceptions with shell=True versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue14879 _______________________________________