The return code

[devi thapa]

Hi,

          I am running one service in the python script eg like
"service httpd status".
If I execute this command in normal shell kernel, the return code is
3. But in the python script its return code is different, ie not 3, I
mean to say that return codes are differing.
But I want the return code  3 , not the other one. So, how can I achieve this?

Regards,
Devi.