How to bypass the 0-255 range limit for sys.exit() in python?

Question

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 m

Answer 1

Works for me (CentOS 5.5, Python 2.6.5):

$ python
>>> import sys
>>> sys.exit(245)
$ echo $?
245