commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit value!!!

[Hari Sekhon]

yes already noted by Steve, thanks.

I should have spotted that myself straight away but I was too wrapped up 
in this whole "I didn't realise there were 2 sets of numbers" thing, 
gotta go read some unix programming books it would seem this is a os 
function that I am not aware of.

I still reserve the right to be annoyed at commands for not hiding this 
from me like everything else, but then </F> is right (as always it would 
seem) I should not be using such a deprecated thing like commands, I 
will switch to subprocess...

I'm even more surprised since I do so much shell scripting and I've 
never even heard of this thing before, I guess only the really 
battle-scarred old skool ones may know of it.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>   
>> Hari Sekhon wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm running a command like
>>>
>>> import commands
>>> result = commands.getstatusoutput('somecommand')
>>> print result[0]
>>> 3072
>>>       
> ...
>   
>> No, it's just returning the error code in the top half of a sixteen-bit 
>> value. You will notice that 3072 == 2 * 256.
>>     
> For the rest of us playing along at home, there is a typo there:
> The preceding line should read:
>  > value. You will notice that 3072 == 12 * 256.
>
> --Scott David Daniels
> scott.daniels at acm.org
>   
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