From 914086aa2fa15d357e5bce36943c52e1cd843445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:34:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Make docs of exitcode for subprocess.getstatusoutput more clear. (GH-9477) Make it more accurate and not limited to UNIX. (cherry picked from commit 7d161726e4ddd2b2cdd7ac58a7e9e9ea3f57a807) Co-authored-by: Xiang Zhang --- Doc/library/subprocess.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index 19f6ff38bb2b..23beb52d3b9a 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') -- 2.47.3