diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 0dac62e4fc9..9f4b90448d6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ Return code handling translates as follows::
    pipe = os.popen("cmd", 'w')
    ...
    rc = pipe.close()
-   if rc != None and rc % 256:
+   if rc is not None and rc % 256:
        print "There were some errors"
    ==>
    process = Popen("cmd", 'w', shell=True, stdin=PIPE)
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index ba5ce015759..59ed60c16a2 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ class Popen(args, bufsize=0, executable=None,
 pipe = os.popen("cmd", 'w')
 ...
 rc = pipe.close()
-if rc != None and rc % 256:
+if rc is not None and rc % 256:
     print "There were some errors"
 ==>
 process = Popen("cmd", 'w', shell=True, stdin=PIPE)