[Matplotlib-users] Re: Displaying \frac{a}{b} in xlabel

[Jouni K S. <jk...@ik...>]

Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:

> Does anyone know how to catch exit status using os.popen and
> friends? LaTeX would have returned an exit status of 1 for this
> example, which could be used to raise a warning.

I think you should get the exit status from the close() method, and 
http://docs.python.org/lib/os-newstreams.html
seems to confirm this. Strangely, popen2 etc do not allow you to get
the exit status.

-- 
Jouni