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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-10-15 13:28:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-10-15 13:28:29 (GMT) |
| commit | f35b884c918d5b754fa25f8cb47e67024cb29605 (patch) | |
| tree | fb80ad0964d1e917e2ad3f4e20e6a736bf1193f2 /Doc/lib/libposix.tex | |
| parent | b7ffca393f3e00dc98c04a689ab6d11d968cc650 (diff) | |
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Clarify that close() of a stream opened by popen() returns None if the
exit status is zero.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex index e3f2929..45f74af 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex @@ -293,7 +293,8 @@ The \var{bufsize} argument has the same meaning as the corresponding argument to the built-in \function{open()} function. The exit status of the command (encoded in the format specified for \function{wait()}) is available as the return value of the \method{close()} method of the file -object. +object, except that when the exit status is zero (termination without +errors), \code{None} is returned. (Not on MS-DOS.) \end{funcdesc} |