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| author | uniocto <serit142sa33go@gmail.com> | 2021-05-11 20:47:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-05-11 20:47:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 5f2eb87f2893c5e77ade4d662cebcce59d3f2c2f (patch) | |
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bpo-23750: Document os-system, subprocess. Patch by Martin Panter. (GH-26016)
* Document os-system, subprocess Patch
* Update Doc/library/os.rst
Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 6f9f321..24ba153 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -4211,12 +4211,12 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. the Standard C function :c:func:`system`, and has the same limitations. Changes to :data:`sys.stdin`, etc. are not reflected in the environment of the executed command. If *command* generates any output, it will be sent to - the interpreter standard output stream. + the interpreter standard output stream. The C standard does not + specify the meaning of the return value of the C function, so the return + value of the Python function is system-dependent. On Unix, the return value is the exit status of the process encoded in the - format specified for :func:`wait`. Note that POSIX does not specify the - meaning of the return value of the C :c:func:`system` function, so the return - value of the Python function is system-dependent. + format specified for :func:`wait`. On Windows, the return value is that returned by the system shell after running *command*. The shell is given by the Windows environment variable |