From: Xiang Zhang Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:18:20 +0000 (+0800) Subject: Make docs of exitcode for subprocess.getstatusoutput more clear. (GH-9477) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~918 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d161726e4ddd2b2cdd7ac58a7e9e9ea3f57a807;p=python Make docs of exitcode for subprocess.getstatusoutput more clear. (GH-9477) Make it more accurate and not limited to UNIX. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index 6e602e72a1..aa889ed00b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -1336,14 +1336,15 @@ handling consistency are valid for these functions. Windows support was added. The function now returns (exitcode, output) instead of (status, output) - as it did in Python 3.3.3 and earlier. See :func:`WEXITSTATUS`. + as it did in Python 3.3.3 and earlier. exitcode has the same value as + :attr:`~Popen.returncode`. .. function:: getoutput(cmd) Return output (stdout and stderr) of executing *cmd* in a shell. - Like :func:`getstatusoutput`, except the exit status is ignored and the return + Like :func:`getstatusoutput`, except the exit code is ignored and the return value is a string containing the command's output. Example:: >>> subprocess.getoutput('ls /bin/ls')