#2633: clarify meaning of env parameter.

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Georg Brandl 2008-04-19 16:58:49 +00:00
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@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ This module defines one class called :class:`Popen`:
searching the executable, so you can't specify the program's path relative to
*cwd*.
If *env* is not ``None``, it defines the environment variables for the new
process.
If *env* is not ``None``, it must be a mapping that defines the environment
variables for the new process; these are used instead of inheriting the current
process' environment, which is the default behavior.
If *universal_newlines* is :const:`True`, the file objects stdout and stderr are
opened as text files, but lines may be terminated by any of ``'\n'``, the Unix