"Martin Blais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Any idea how this idiom could be supported using a more portable
> solution (i.e. how would I make this idiom under Windows, is there
> some equivalent to /dev/null)?
On a DOS/Windows command line, '>NUL:' or '>nu
In the subprocess module, by default the files handles in the child
are inherited from the parent. To ignore a child's output, I can use
the stdout or stderr options to send the output to a pipe::
p = Popen(command, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
However, this is sensitive to the buffer deadlock p
