[docs] subprocess module constant documentation

Georg Brandl georg at python.org
Sun Oct 6 09:36:38 CEST 2013


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Am 20.09.2013 17:40, schrieb Skip Montanaro:
> The subprocess module documentation mentions a lot of constants in section
> 17.5.3.1. That is the only section labeled "Constants", though it seems
> likely from the section hierarchy and the obscure names in that section,
> that these are all Windows-specific constants. On my Mac, I see DEVNULL,
> PIPE and STDOUT. While these are mentioned in section 17.5.1, they aren't
> documented specifically as constants, rather as "special value"s. I think
> the docs should have a single "Constants" section one level up in the
> hierarchy from where it currently live. It should describe all constants
> the user might encounter, marking those which are platform-specific.

Hi Skip,

please create a tracker issue for this.

thanks,
Georg
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