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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/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index b60db58..56b6b6e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -1292,11 +1292,17 @@ Replacing :func:`os.system` sts = os.system("mycmd" + " myarg") # becomes - sts = call("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True) + retcode = call("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True) Notes: * Calling the program through the shell is usually not required. +* The :func:`call` return value is encoded differently to that of + :func:`os.system`. + +* The :func:`os.system` function ignores SIGINT and SIGQUIT signals while + the command is running, but the caller must do this separately when + using the :mod:`subprocess` module. A more realistic example would look like this:: |