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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:22:30 +1100
Subject: Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>         Having spent 22 years with VMS, 0 -> success is still a problem to me.
> Odd result codes (aka True) were 1-success/3-information, even results
> (False) were 0-warning/2-error/4-fatal

Having spent a similar amount of time with Unix, C, and various APIs,
I'm quite used to 0 meaning success and nonzero meaning error.

ChrisA