Portable way to refer to the null device?

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:56:45 -0800, nick at stinemates.org wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:32:20PM -0800, Roy Smith wrote:
>> I need to run a command using subprocess.Popen() and have stdin
>> connected to the null device.  On unix, I would do:
>>
>>         self.process = subprocess.Popen(argv,
>>                                         env=new_env,
>>                                         stdout=open(outfile, 'w'),
>>                                         stderr=open(errfile, 'w'),
>>                                         stdin=open('/dev/null')
>>                                         )
>>
>> but that's not portable to windows.  Does Python have a portable way
>> to get a file object connected to the null device, regardless of what
>> operating system you're running on?
>
>I normally just implement my own object:
>
>class DevNull:
>    def write(self, str):
>        pass

I bet this won't work.  It needs to be a "real" file - have a file
descriptor or a handle or something.

Instead, try opening os.devnull.

Jean-Paul