Merged revisions 73934 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r73934 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-11 11:35:13 +0200 (sam., 11 juil. 2009) | 3 lines

  #6358: Merge r73933: Add basic tests for the return value of os.popen().close().
  And fix the implementation to make these tests pass with py3k
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diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 5dce0c1..a59c5df 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -643,7 +643,13 @@
         self._proc = proc
     def close(self):
         self._stream.close()
-        return self._proc.wait() << 8  # Shift left to match old behavior
+        returncode = self._proc.wait()
+        if returncode == 0:
+            return None
+        if name == 'nt':
+            return returncode
+        else:
+            return returncode << 8  # Shift left to match old behavior
     def __getattr__(self, name):
         return getattr(self._stream, name)
     def __iter__(self):