python exit 0,如何绕过python中sys.exit（）的0-255范围限制？

In python (on a Linux system), I'm launching a command using os.system() and retrieving the return code. If that return code is different from 0, I would like to make the program exit with that same return code. So I wrote:

ret = os.system(cmd)

if ret != 0:

print "exit with status %s" % ret

sys.exit(ret)

When the return code is lower than 256, it works fine, but when it's greater than 255, the exit code used is 0. How can I make sys.exit() accept codes greater than 255?

Edit: the limit is actually 255

In fact, the ret variable receives 256, but sys.exit() fails to use it, so the program returns 0 instead. When I launch cmd manually, I see that it returns 1, not 256.

解决方案

Works for me (CentOS 5.5, Python 2.6.5):

$ python

>>> import sys

>>> sys.exit(245)

$ echo $?

245