Emanuel Barry added the comment: A negative return code generally means an error occurred. Negating retcode here is equivalent to abs(retcode), which shows you want a positive integer to appear in the message - it's not an error.
Could replace '-retcode' with 'abs(retcode)' to be more clear. Possibly also add a comment in the code example body to further clarify this. ---------- nosy: +ebarry _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27155> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
