Re: Fwd: mutt returns a 256 error code

[Ian Collier]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 01:51:31PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> 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.

Although this is system-dependent, one popular implementation has:

#define __WEXITSTATUS(status)   (((status) & 0xff00) >> 8)

so if system() returned 256 then the exit code was most likely 1, or failure.

However, this does not tell you why it failed - need to look elsewhere
for that.

imc