STINNER Victor added the comment:

Nick Coghlan added the comment:
> a. How do folks feel about providing a new "text" parameter to replace the 
> cryptic "universal_newlines=True" that would explicitly be equivalent to 
> "universal newlines with sys.getdefaultencoding()"?

If it's just text=True, I don't see the point of having two options
with the same purpose.

> b. Given (a), what if the new "text" parameter also accepted a new 
> "subprocess.TextConfig" object in addition to the base behaviour of doing a 
> plain bool(text) check to activate the defaults?

Can you give an example? I don't see how the API would be used.

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