From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:50:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merged revisions 79178 via svnmerge from
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Merged revisions 79178 via svnmerge from
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  r79178 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:28:16 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Clarify that for shell=True, the shell PID will be the child PID.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index aeff9f0383..3838cc63cc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ The following attributes are also available:
 
    The process ID of the child process.
 
+   Note that if you set the *shell* argument to ``True``, this is the process ID
+   of the spawned shell.
+
 
 .. attribute:: Popen.returncode