id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
25515	The return value of BaseCommand.handle() is treated as output, but this is undocumented	Ned Batchelder	nobody	"The docs for handle()  (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/custom-management-commands/#django.core.management.BaseCommand.handle)  don't mention what its return value means.

The code treats it as output, and writes it to self.stdout().  This should be documented.

(Note: the behavior changed slightly between 1.4 and 1.8: In 1.4, we returned a binary string, and it worked fine, in 1.8, this fails with a DecodeError because of ""results.endswith(ending)"" )."	Bug	closed	Documentation	1.8	Normal	fixed		rene@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0