[OT] Re: return level?

[Clint Adams]

> Looks like python is doing a "left shift 8" of the return code and you 
> should do a "right shift 8" to get the value you want.  If I were you, I'd 
> take a look at the documentation of os.system() and see what it's returning.

It's not Python doing the shift; it's the libc system() that does that.

-From /usr/include/bits/waitstatus.h on glibc:
#define __WEXITSTATUS(status)   (((status) & 0xff00) >> 8)