From: Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:19:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merged revisions 82879 via svnmerge from
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Merged revisions 82879 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r82879 | stefan.krah | 2010-07-14 12:16:11 +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 2c395518e8..edba7a7f65 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ 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', stdin=PIPE)