From: Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:13:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merged revisions 82877 via svnmerge from
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Merged revisions 82877 via svnmerge from
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  r82877 | stefan.krah | 2010-07-14 12:06:07 +0200 (Wed, 14 Jul 2010) | 3 lines

  High byte is the exit status.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index ffa880fa00..6f2d55b145 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ Return code handling translates as follows::
    pipe = os.popen("cmd", 'w')
    ...
    rc = pipe.close()
-   if rc != 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)