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Expand Up @@ -1336,14 +1336,15 @@ handling consistency are valid for these functions.
Windows support was added.

The function now returns (exitcode, output) instead of (status, output)
as it did in Python 3.3.3 and earlier. See :func:`WEXITSTATUS`.
as it did in Python 3.3.3 and earlier. exitcode has the same value as
:attr:`~Popen.returncode`.


.. function:: getoutput(cmd)

Return output (stdout and stderr) of executing *cmd* in a shell.

Like :func:`getstatusoutput`, except the exit status is ignored and the return
Like :func:`getstatusoutput`, except the exit code is ignored and the return
value is a string containing the command's output. Example::

>>> subprocess.getoutput('ls /bin/ls')
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