From 647e9d2652663b9c100be51e22fd6cfc76de95e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:57:46 +0000 Subject: #7126: os.environ changes *do* take effect in subprocesses started with os.system(). --- Doc/library/os.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 260b3b3..432de12 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -1836,9 +1836,9 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. .. function:: system(command) Execute the command (a string) in a subshell. This is implemented by calling - the Standard C function :cfunc:`system`, and has the same limitations. Changes - to :data:`os.environ`, :data:`sys.stdin`, etc. are not reflected in the - environment of the executed command. + the Standard C function :cfunc:`system`, and has the same limitations. + Changes :data:`sys.stdin`, etc. are not reflected in the environment of the + executed command. 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 -- cgit v0.12