Question - Returning exit codes

Gerrit Holl gerrit.holl at pobox.com
Thu Jun 24 10:40:30 EDT 1999


On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:27:07PM +0000, sjoshi at ingr.com wrote:
> Hello All
>    I'm calling my python program from a perl script using the system
> command. I was wondering what would be the best way to return exit
> codes from my python script so that they can be intercepted in the perl
> program.
> 

#!/usr/bin/python
"""example on using exit codes"""

import sys

def exit_with_code():
    number = input("What exit code do you want? ")
    sys.exit(number)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    exit_with_code()



or easier:

sys.exit(1)

groeten,
Gerrit.

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