* On 13 Oct 2015, David Champion wrote:
> Hi Mathieu -
>
> The return from python's os.system is not the same as the exit status.
> You need os.WEXITSTATUS(os.system(command)), which should be 0, or
> success.
I should add that you really should check other values as well -- for
example, if mutt dies a terrible death with a segmentation fault, you'll
see:
code = os.system(cmd)
os.WIFEXITED(code) -> False
os.WIFSIGNALED(code) -> True
os.WTERMSIG(code) -> signal.SIGSEGV
> For more details, see:
> * pydoc os
> * man 2 wait
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