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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ with pipes() as (out, err):
 stdout = out.read()
 ```
 
-Capture stdout/stderr in StringIO:
+Capture both stdout and stderr in a single StringIO object:
 
 ```python
 from io import StringIO