.. index::
single: universal newlines; subprocess module
- If *universal_newlines* is ``True``, the file objects *stdin*, *stdout*
- and *stderr* will be opened as text streams in :term:`universal newlines`
- mode using the encoding returned by
- :func:`locale.getpreferredencoding(False) <locale.getpreferredencoding>`.
- For *stdin*, line ending characters ``'\n'`` in the input will be converted
- to the default line separator :data:`os.linesep`. For *stdout* and
- *stderr*, all line endings in the output will be converted to ``'\n'``.
- For more information see the documentation of the :class:`io.TextIOWrapper`
- class when the *newline* argument to its constructor is ``None``.
+ If *universal_newlines* is ``True``, the file objects *stdin*, *stdout* and
+ *stderr* will be opened as text streams in :term:`universal newlines` mode
+ using the encoding returned by :func:`locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
+ <locale.getpreferredencoding>`. For *stdin*, line ending characters
+ ``'\n'`` in the input will be converted to the default line separator
+ :data:`os.linesep`. For *stdout* and *stderr*, all line endings in the
+ output will be converted to ``'\n'``. For more information see the
+ documentation of the :class:`io.TextIOWrapper` class when the *newline*
+ argument to its constructor is ``None``.
.. note::