[Python-checkins] bpo-45896: Fix docs default asyncio event loop on Windows (GH-29857)

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Wed Dec 1 07:24:55 EST 2021


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f27bef30438d2f07f19de91e021f34b77ccc4b20
commit: f27bef30438d2f07f19de91e021f34b77ccc4b20
branch: main
author: Rob <r4226 at pm.me>
committer: asvetlov <andrew.svetlov at gmail.com>
date: 2021-12-01T14:24:46+02:00
summary:

bpo-45896: Fix docs default asyncio event loop on Windows (GH-29857)

files:
M Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index 5a3369415a745..497128ee17f37 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -1243,9 +1243,10 @@ async/await code consider using the high-level
 
 .. note::
 
-   The default asyncio event loop on **Windows** does not support
-   subprocesses. See :ref:`Subprocess Support on Windows
-   <asyncio-windows-subprocess>` for details.
+   On Windows, the default event loop :class:`ProactorEventLoop` supports
+   subprocesses, whereas :class:`SelectorEventLoop` does not. See
+   :ref:`Subprocess Support on Windows <asyncio-windows-subprocess>` for
+   details.
 
 .. coroutinemethod:: loop.subprocess_exec(protocol_factory, *args, \
                       stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, \



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