why does close() fail miserably on popen with exit code -1 ?!

[Rene Pijlman]

Atanas Banov:
>i ran onto this weirdness today: seems like close() on popen-ed
>(pseudo)file fails miserably with exception instead of returning exit
>code, when said exit code is -1.

Not here.

Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
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>>> import os
>>> print os.popen('exit 1').close()
1

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René Pijlman