Commit f35b884c authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Clarify that close() of a stream opened by popen() returns None if the

exit status is zero.
parent b7ffca39
......@@ -293,7 +293,8 @@ The \var{bufsize} argument has the same meaning as the corresponding
argument to the built-in \function{open()} function. The exit status of
the command (encoded in the format specified for \function{wait()}) is
available as the return value of the \method{close()} method of the file
object.
object, except that when the exit status is zero (termination without
errors), \code{None} is returned.
(Not on MS-DOS.)
\end{funcdesc}
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