please help me understand os.system() result

[Tim Peters]

[Duncan Booth]
>> It looks to me as though the documentation is slightly broken at least
>> on Windows systems. It says the return value is in the format specified
>> for wait, but wait is not implemented on Windows systems.

[Erik Max Francis]
> No, the documentation explicitly states that it returns the value
> returned by wait, except on Windows "where it is always 0."

No <wink>, the docs say "except on Windows 95 and 98, where it is always 0".
That's not so on WinNT, Win2K or WinXP.  The docs definitely need
clarification.