Portable /dev/null?

[Peter Hansen]

Nicolas Fleury wrote:
> 
>         Is there an object in some standard library that would be the portable
> equivalent of "file('/dev/null','w')" or do I have to create my own
> class and object to do it?  If it doesn't exist, do you think it would
> be a good idea to have such an object in a standard library?

Probably considered too simple to bother putting in the standard library.

class nullFile:
    def write(self, data):
        pass

>>> n = nullFile()
>>> print >>n, "this goes nowhere"

Or something to that effect...

-Peter