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more cleanup ups of the recently added warnings in the subprocess docs.

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Gregory P. Smith 2008-08-04 18:34:07 +00:00
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@ -196,8 +196,8 @@ Instances of the :class:`Popen` class have the following methods:
.. warning::
This will deadlock if the child process generates enough output to a
stdout or stderr pipe causing it to block waiting for the OS's pipe buffer
to accept more data.
stdout or stderr pipe such that it blocks waiting for the OS pipe buffer
to accept more data. Use :meth:`communicate` to avoid that.
.. method:: Popen.communicate(input=None)
@ -253,9 +253,10 @@ The following attributes are also available:
.. warning::
Use :meth:`communicate` rather than ``.stdin.write()``, ``.stdout.read()`` or
``.stderr.read`` to avoid deadlocks due to any of the other pipe buffers
filling up and blocking the child process.
Use :meth:`communicate` rather than :meth:`.stdin.write`,
:meth:`.stdout.read` or :meth:`.stderr.read` to avoid deadlocks due
to any of the other OS pipe buffers filling up and blocking the child
process.
.. attribute:: Popen.stdin