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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-09-21 13:34:46 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-09-21 13:34:46 -0700 |
| commit | 914086aa2fa15d357e5bce36943c52e1cd843445 (patch) | |
| tree | dae037fe7eb6ee8ebcb395fc8f5b3afe703fcc72 | |
| parent | 187f2dd256a917c20bf55954d019fd35fb46ab08 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-914086aa2fa15d357e5bce36943c52e1cd843445.tar.gz | |
Make docs of exitcode for subprocess.getstatusoutput more clear. (GH-9477)
Make it more accurate and not limited to UNIX.
(cherry picked from commit 7d161726e4ddd2b2cdd7ac58a7e9e9ea3f57a807)
Co-authored-by: Xiang Zhang <angwerzx@126.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/subprocess.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index 19f6ff38bb..23beb52d3b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -1336,14 +1336,15 @@ handling consistency are valid for these functions. Windows support was added. The function now returns (exitcode, output) instead of (status, output) - as it did in Python 3.3.3 and earlier. See :func:`WEXITSTATUS`. + as it did in Python 3.3.3 and earlier. exitcode has the same value as + :attr:`~Popen.returncode`. .. function:: getoutput(cmd) Return output (stdout and stderr) of executing *cmd* in a shell. - Like :func:`getstatusoutput`, except the exit status is ignored and the return + Like :func:`getstatusoutput`, except the exit code is ignored and the return value is a string containing the command's output. Example:: >>> subprocess.getoutput('ls /bin/ls') |