Hi,

It looks like new tests are required to check that the behaviour will not
change again.

Victor

Le mardi 24 février 2015, Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> a écrit :

> While porting some code from 2.7 to 3.4 I discovered that
> command.getstatusoutput() (renamed to subprocess.getstatusoutput() in 3.x)
> had changed. Surprise!
>
> The code was working under an earlier version of 3.3 but broke when I ran
> it on 3.4.  Nowhere was this documented that I could find. Tracking down
> what changed, I discovered it was unintentional due to the meaning of the
> returned status int never being tested. http://bugs.python.org/issue23508
> filed...
>
> Given it has shipped in several stable 3.x releases and as part of some
> major Linux distros, reverting the behavior change seems wrong. The new
> behavior is nicer and more consistent with the rest of the subprocess
> module. I suggest just documenting it and moving on. It seems too late to
> fix this mistake without causing additional headaches. Anyone disagree?
>
> -gps
>
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