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diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 6b90d40564..dd994e2aaf 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -800,9 +800,9 @@ class Popen(object):
raise
def communicate(self, input=None, timeout=None):
- """Interact with process: Send data to stdin. Read data from
- stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is reached. Wait for
- process to terminate.
+ """Interact with process: Send data to stdin and close it.
+ Read data from stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is
+ reached. Wait for process to terminate.
The optional "input" argument should be data to be sent to the
child process (if self.universal_newlines is True, this should