Passing back the ERRORLEVEL

[Gisle Vanem]

I have trouble understanding why a 'sys.exit(2)' is
*not* passed back to the CMD shell in this little example:

----- c:\py_cmd_test.cmd ------
@%WinDir%\py.exe -2 -x %~dp0py_cmd_test.cmd & exit /b %ERRORLEVEL%

# The '-x' is for Python to skip the 1st line of this file.
import sys
print ("Hello, I am %s; %s" % (sys.argv[0], sys.version_info))
sys.exit (2)

--------

Executing this in a 4NT shell (from JPsoft), correctly reports:
c:\> py_cmd_test.cmd & echo %errorlevel
Hello, I am C:\py_cmd_test.cmd; sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=15, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
2

But the junk-ware cmd.exe does not:
C:\>py_cmd_test.cmd & echo %ERRORLEVEL%
Hello, I am C:\py_cmd_test.cmd; sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=15, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
0

Anybody here who can spot the problem?

Same issue with 'py -3'. I'm on Windows-10.

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