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slight rewording clarification.
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gh-87597: Document TimeoutExpired.stdout & .stderr types. 
This documents the behavior that has always been the case since timeout
support was introduced in Python 3.3.
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Expand Up @@ -193,7 +193,10 @@ underlying :class:`Popen` interface can be used directly.
.. attribute:: output

Output of the child process if it was captured by :func:`run` or
:func:`check_output`. Otherwise, ``None``.
:func:`check_output`. Otherwise, ``None``. This is always
:class:`bytes` when any output was captured regardless of the
``text=True`` setting. It may be ``None`` when there was no output
captured.

.. attribute:: stdout

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.. attribute:: stderr

Stderr output of the child process if it was captured by :func:`run`.
Otherwise, ``None``.
Otherwise, ``None``. This is always :class:`bytes` when stderr output
was captured regardless of the ``text=True`` setting. It may be
``None`` when there was no stderr output captured.

.. versionadded:: 3.3

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