[issue5290] subprocess.Popen.communicate does not encode unicode strings

Florent Xicluna added the comment: AFAICT 2.6 and 2.7 behave correctly. -- nosy: +flox resolution: -> out of date stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5290] subprocess.Popen.communicate does not encode unicode strings

New submission from Beda Kosata : The method subprocess.Popen.communicate (more the underlying _communicate) writes the input to the stdin stream without encoding, regardless of it being a unicode string. The result is incorrect behavior of the running program as it receives 4 bytes for each char