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Dangling asterisks in Python 3.0 subprocess docs #48659

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smontanaro opened this issue Nov 24, 2008 · 2 comments
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Dangling asterisks in Python 3.0 subprocess docs #48659

smontanaro opened this issue Nov 24, 2008 · 2 comments
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BPO 4409
Nosy @smontanaro, @birkenfeld

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Georg,

I just noticed that there are asterisks in a couple places in the subprocess
module documentation which don't appear to have corresponding footnotes.
All the way at the bottom are subsections called

Replacing os.spawn*    
Replacing os.popen*

I don't know what the '*' is supposed to mean, but in normal usage it would
tell the user there is a footnote which elaborates on something related to
that text. I don't see any such footnotes. Oh, wait a minute. You
probably mean for them to be wildcards. Hmmm... Probably not the best
usage. Can you find a different way to indicate that those examples refer
to a larger category of functions?

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Should be fixed in r67554.

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