From a253dc1da04fa05600039c0e19a9a13878524ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Krah Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:06:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] High byte is the exit status. --- Doc/library/subprocess.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index b5e769cab59..3ca0db98cba 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ Return code handling translates as follows:: pipe = os.popen("cmd", 'w') ... rc = pipe.close() - if rc is not None and rc % 256: + if rc is not None and rc >> 8: print "There were some errors" ==> process = Popen("cmd", 'w', shell=True, stdin=PIPE)