From: Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:16:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: High byte is the exit status.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~196
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc9e08de3a05149c7f0b2334d88a7b80ca4063e3;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 c7a349b532..f75858dc56 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ 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', stdin=PIPE)