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Diffstat (limited to 'pexpect/pexpect.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | pexpect/pexpect.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pexpect/pexpect.py b/pexpect/pexpect.py index f2f2d7b..f9256c8 100644 --- a/pexpect/pexpect.py +++ b/pexpect/pexpect.py @@ -214,10 +214,12 @@ class spawn: return self.child_fd def close (self): # File-like object. - """ This closes the file descriptor of the child application. + """ This closes the connection with the child application. It makes no attempt to actually kill the child or wait for its status. If the file descriptor was set by passing a file descriptor to the constructor then this method raises an exception. + Note that calling close() more than once is valid. + This emulates standard Python behavior with files. """ if self.child_fd != -1: if not self.__child_fd_owner: |