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-rw-r--r--Lib/os.py8
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_popen.py7
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 5dce0c1..a59c5df 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -643,7 +643,13 @@ class _wrap_close:
self._proc = proc
def close(self):
self._stream.close()
- return self._proc.wait() << 8 # Shift left to match old behavior
+ returncode = self._proc.wait()
+ if returncode == 0:
+ return None
+ if name == 'nt':
+ return returncode
+ else:
+ return returncode << 8 # Shift left to match old behavior
def __getattr__(self, name):
return getattr(self._stream, name)
def __iter__(self):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_popen.py b/Lib/test/test_popen.py
index d728792..99ad41d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_popen.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_popen.py
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ class PopenTest(unittest.TestCase):
)
support.reap_children()
+ def test_return_code(self):
+ self.assertEqual(os.popen("exit 0").close(), None)
+ if os.name == 'nt':
+ self.assertEqual(os.popen("exit 42").close(), 42)
+ else:
+ self.assertEqual(os.popen("exit 42").close(), 42 << 8)
+
def test_main():
support.run_unittest(PopenTest)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8b29266..d0f155a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ C-API
Library
-------
+- Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
+ reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
+
- Issue #6323: The pdb debugger did not exit when running a script with a
syntax error.