bpo-24888: Clarify subprocess.check_call propagates exceptions if unable to start process (GH-28018)
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index af54633..21a96a4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -1149,6 +1149,8 @@ code was zero then return, otherwise raise :exc:`CalledProcessError`. The :exc:`CalledProcessError` object will have the return code in the :attr:`~CalledProcessError.returncode` attribute. + If :func:`check_call` was unable to start the process it will propagate the exception + that was raised. Code needing to capture stdout or stderr should use :func:`run` instead::