Portable way to refer to the null device?

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    Roy> I need to run a command using subprocess.Popen() and have stdin
    Roy> connected to the null device. 

os.path.devnull should do what you want:

    >>> os.path.devnull
    '/dev/null'
    >>> import ntpath
    >>> ntpath.devnull
    'nul'

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