> Where did you find the Unix docs you pasted in? I didn't find it in > the man pages. Thank you. Based on what you say, I will change my > os._exit() to sys.exit().
http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.wait http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.waitpid I don't know what man pages you were looking at, but the Unix system call does work the same way; to extract the exit status in C you're supposed to use the WEXITSTATUS(status) macro, which is typically implemented as ((status >> 8) & 0377). See: http://linux.die.net/man/2/waitpid -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
