Python scripts and return codes

[jurgen.defurne at philips.com]

gunars at spss.com@SMTP at python.org on 08/09/2000 23:24:19
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Steve Holden wrote:
>
> Gunars Lucans wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible for a Python script to send a return code back to the shell
> > that's running it?  Yes, I know I should be doing it all in Python :-), but I'm
> > trying to add a Python-based util to an existing shell script (on a Win platform
> > with a MKS Korn shell).
>
> Look up the exit() function in the sys module.  You can return integer
> values to the calling processor from your programs.

I had tried sys.exit(rc) a few days ago and I'd swear it didn't return anything
but zero back to the shell.  That was on a Win98 system with version 1.5.2 or
1.6b1.  Right now, with 2.0b1 on NT4, it works like a charm.  I'll try to pin
down where I went wrong before.  Thanks for your help!

Gunars
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Somewhere in the documentation I have seen that under Win95/Win98 the return value from a process (system) is always
0 !

Jurgen