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diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst index a4e234e..21b1299 100644 --- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst +++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst @@ -1165,27 +1165,32 @@ handling consistency are valid for these functions. .. function:: getstatusoutput(cmd) - Return ``(status, output)`` of executing *cmd* in a shell. + Return ``(exitcode, output)`` of executing *cmd* in a shell. Execute the string *cmd* in a shell with :meth:`Popen.check_output` and - return a 2-tuple ``(status, output)``. The locale encoding is used; + return a 2-tuple ``(exitcode, output)``. The locale encoding is used; see the notes on :ref:`frequently-used-arguments` for more details. A trailing newline is stripped from the output. - The exit status for the command can be interpreted - according to the rules for the C function :c:func:`wait`. Example:: + The exit code for the command can be interpreted as the return code + of subprocess. Example:: >>> subprocess.getstatusoutput('ls /bin/ls') (0, '/bin/ls') >>> subprocess.getstatusoutput('cat /bin/junk') - (256, 'cat: /bin/junk: No such file or directory') + (1, 'cat: /bin/junk: No such file or directory') >>> subprocess.getstatusoutput('/bin/junk') - (256, 'sh: /bin/junk: not found') + (127, 'sh: /bin/junk: not found') + >>> subprocess.getstatusoutput('/bin/kill $$') + (-15, '') Availability: POSIX & Windows .. versionchanged:: 3.3.4 - Windows support added + Windows support was added. + + The function now returns (exitcode, output) instead of (status, output) + as it did in Python 3.3.3 and earlier. See :func:`WEXITSTATUS`. .. function:: getoutput(cmd) |