return a value to shell script

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-11-12, devi thapa <devi.thapa at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am executing a python script in a shell script.  The python
> script actually returns a value. So, can I get the return
> value in a shell script? If yes, then help me out.

There are two ways to "return" something to a shell script.

 1) To return a success/fail indication, use sys.exit(n).  n==0
    means success, n!=0 means fail.

 2) To return the end value of an operation or computation to a
    shell script, you write it to stdout as an ascii string.

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