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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/subprocess.rst2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index b5e769cab5..3ca0db98cb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ Return code handling translates as follows::
pipe = os.popen("cmd", 'w')
...
rc = pipe.close()
- if rc is not None and rc % 256:
+ if rc is not None and rc >> 8:
print "There were some errors"
==>
process = Popen("cmd", 'w', shell=True, stdin=PIPE)