[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-471615 ] Incorrepopen2 exit status misrepresented (original) (raw)

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Bugs item #471615, was opened at 2001-10-15 23:34 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=471615&group_id=5470

Category: Documentation Group: Python 2.1.1 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake) Summary: Incorrepopen2 exit status misrepresented

Initial Comment: The docs for the os module describe popen2, popen3, and popen4 as though they behaved like popen.

Specifically, the doc says that "The exit status of the command (encoded in the format specified for wait()) is available as the return value of the close() method of the file object ..."

This is not true. popen2 and friends do not return process exit status this way. Instead, they provide a wait() method for fetching process status. The docs for the popen2 module more truthfully describe how exit status is returned.

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