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Making unreliability of returncode explicit in documentation.
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Rewording with benjaminp and abadger1999 suggestions.
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reword the Popen.returncode text
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reword the Popen.returncode text
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Expand Up @@ -895,10 +895,11 @@ The following attributes are also available:
.. attribute:: Popen.returncode

The child return code. Initially ``None``, :attr:`returncode` is set by
:meth:`poll` and :meth:`wait` after process termination is observed.

A ``None`` value indicates that the process
hasn't terminated yet.
a call to the :meth:`poll`, :meth:`wait`, or :meth:`communicate` methods
if they detect that the process has terminated.

A ``None`` value indicates that the process hadn't yet terminated at the
time of the last method call.

A negative value ``-N`` indicates that the child was terminated by signal
``N`` (POSIX only).
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