In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically the value you want is shifted up 8 bits. Perhaps I should more > understandably have said: > > 12 << 8 == 3072 Or as already suggested in other followups, use os.WEXITSTATUS (and os.WIFEXITED.) Not only does this do more precisely the right thing, it will work on any platform that supports a POSIX wait -- which doesn't require that exit == status << 8, only that WEXITSTATUS be able to return that value. Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
