On 6 Mar, 16:51, "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6 Mar, 16:39, "Paolo Pantaleo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The os.system() (but all the other funciont with similar behavior) reports > > wrong exit status. I can reproduce the bug in the following way > > I think you should look at some previous threads related to this > (obtained by searching Google Groups for "os.system exit status > code"): > > "grabbing return codes from os.system() > call"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/efe... > > "please help me understand os.system() > result"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/4a9... > > "os.system() << 8 > ?"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/f12... > > In short, the returned code is actually a combination of two values, > and you need to extract the expected status code by shifting the > result 8 bits to the right. It may actually be more complicated than > that, but the man page for system ("man 3 system") explains this in > more detail. > > Paul
Sorry, for the mistake, I just missed the words "encoded in the format specified for wait()" in the documentation of popen() Thnx for the immediate answer PAolo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
