From e67ab57de1a7416bd79efbca283bc4bef0da1d2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:55:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify docs about os.popen[234]. --- Doc/lib/libos.tex | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index eb48a9e793b5..2c071862d7ad 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX, Windows. \end{funcdesc} -For each of these \function{popen()} variants, if \var{bufsize} is +For each of the following \function{popen()} variants, if \var{bufsize} is specified, it specifies the buffer size for the I/O pipes. \var{mode}, if provided, should be the string \code{'b'} or \code{'t'}; on Windows this is needed to determine whether the file @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ which case arguments will be passed directly to the program without shell intervention (as with \function{os.spawnv()}). If \var{cmd} is a string it will be passed to the shell (as with \function{os.system()}). -These methods do not make it possible to retrieve the return code from +These methods do not make it possible to retrieve the exit status from the child processes. The only way to control the input and output streams and also retrieve the return codes is to use the \class{Popen3} and \class{Popen4} classes from the \refmodule{popen2} -- 2.47.3