Github user andrewor14 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1178#issuecomment-46914899 Yes, that's what I intended. The first except is there in case stdout is not an int, in which case we should tell the user explicitly that there is interference from some other output, instead of surfacing an obscure "ValueError: cannot cast to int" message. The second except is there for all other exceptions that could happen (if we fail to read from process output). This doesn't add much information other than the exit code, if there is one.
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