Easiest way to get exit code from os.popen()?

[mrstephengross]

Hi folks. I'm using os.popen() to run a command; according to the
documentation, the filehandle.close() oepration is suppsoed to return
the exit code. However, when I execute something like "exit 5",
close() returns 1280. Here's the code:

pipe = os.popen("exit 5")
print pipe.close() # prints 1280

Am I doing something wrong? Is there an easier way to get the exit
code?

Thanks,
--Steve

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

>>> import os
>>> os.WEXITSTATUS(1280)
5
>>>

Jean-Paul

[Karthik Gurusamy]

On Oct 24, 12:07 pm, mrstephengross <mrstephengr...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>>> print "%#x" % 1280
0x500 # first byte is your exit code; second gives signal info if
any
>>>

In any case, the best approach is to use the os module to interpret it
as given in other post (os.WEXITSTATUS(1280))

Karthik

>
> Thanks,
> --Steve

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:07:44 -0300, mrstephengross
<mrsteph...@hotmail.com> escribi�:

Read the docs again...

--
Gabriel Genellina

[0x7f...@gmail.com]

четверг, 25 октября 2007 г., 1:12:31 UTC+5 пользователь Jean-Paul Calderone написал:

Big Thanks! :))