os.system() << 8 ?

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Wed May 28 11:37:31 EDT 2003

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Jacek Generowicz wrote:
> Why does os.system seem to return a value which is 256 times the actual
> status code returned by its argument ?

os.WEXITSTATUS

man waitpid for more info

Pádraig.

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