[Python-Dev] deprecate commands.getstatus() (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Mar 23 02:24:17 CET 2007

Titus Brown wrote:

* second, I'd like to add a 'requiresuccess' bool keyword, that is by default False (and does nothing in that case). However, when True, the functions would emulate checkcall, i.e. they would raise CalledProcessError when the returncode was not zero.

By the no-constant-parameters principle, I think it would be better to have another set of functions for this. They should be named without 'status' in the names, since if the function returns at all, the status is always going to be zero.

-- Greg

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