please help me understand os.system() result

[Roman Suzi]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Keisuke URAGO wrote:

> You should shift 8bits like this.
> 
> >>> os.system("exit 7") >> 8
> 7
> >>> os.system("python -c 'import sys;sys.exit(1)'") >> 8
> 1
> >>> os.system("python -c 'import sys;sys.exit(2)'") >> 8
> 2

Thank you, I already guessed it.
However, it's strange that os.system() behaves like this on Linux and the 
other way on WinNT/2000. (This is in the docs - so ok)

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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