From: Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:06:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: High byte is the exit status.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.1rc1~599
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a253dc1da04fa05600039c0e19a9a13878524ecd;p=python

High byte is the exit status.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index b5e769cab5..3ca0db98cb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ Return code handling translates as follows::
    pipe = os.popen("cmd", 'w')
    ...
    rc = pipe.close()
-   if rc is not 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)