Re: commands.getstatusoutput result is not command line exit value!!!

[Hari Sekhon]

yes already noted by Steve, thanks. I should have spotted that myself straight away but I was too wrapped up in this whole "I didn't realise there were 2 sets of numbers" thing, gotta go read some unix programming books it would seem this is a os function that I am not aware of. I still reserve the right to be annoyed at commands for not hiding this from me like everything else, but then </F> is right (as always it would seem) I should not be using such a deprecated thing like commands, I will switch to subprocess... I'm even more surprised since I do so much shell scripting and I've never even heard of this thing before, I guess only the really battle-scarred old skool ones may know of it. -h Hari Sekhon Scott David Daniels wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I'm running a command like import commands result = commands.getstatusoutput('somecommand') print result[0] 3072 ... No, it's just returning the error code in the top half of a sixteen-bit value. You will notice that 3072 == 2 * 256. For the rest of us playing along at home, there is a typo there: The preceding line should read: > value. You will notice that 3072 == 12 * 256. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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