please help me understand os.system() result

[Erik Max Francis]

Duncan Booth wrote:

> 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.

No, the documentation explicitly states that it returns the value
returned by wait, except on Windows "where it is always 0."

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